Developmental representations remain relatively stable across translated bilingual narratives¶

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q2 i? Comparing annotations of Chinese and English versions of the same stories shows overall annotation similarity of 0.772 and developmental-stage agreement of 86.0%, though strict exact full-set match is low. → Sijing Yin 2026

Evidence¶

Sijing Yin 2026¶

Sijing Yin, Zirui Wang, Qian Liu, Jiamou Liu. (2026). CLARA: Can AI Assess Developmental Appropriateness in Children's Stories?. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.05783 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2610.05783

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Translated bilingual consistency analysis comparing GPT-4o annotations of Chinese and English versions of the same 100 stories (Table 3). The article reports "overall annotation sim- ilarity of 0.772 and developmental-stage agree- ment of 86.0%", while strict exact full-set match is only 0.180, reflecting difficulty of identical fine-grained annotations under translation.

"As shown in Table 3, developmental represen- tations remain relatively stable across translated bilingual narratives, with overall annotation sim- ilarity of 0.772 and developmental-stage agree- ment of 86.0%."

Discussion¶

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