## 5 Results
### In-Context Learning Optimization  
Figure 3 illustrates the relationship between shot count and translation performance across different target languages and models. Our analysis identifies k = 8 as the optimal number of demonstration examples across most model-language combinations. Performance improvements plateau beyond this point, with slight degradation observed at k = 15, likely due to context window limitations.  
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{l c c c c c c c c c} \hline \hline \multirow{2}{*}{**Model**} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**Tarifit\(\rightarrow\)Arabic**} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**Tarifit\(\rightarrow\)French**} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**Tarifit\(\rightarrow\)English**} \\ \cline{2-10}  & **BLEU** & **chrF** & **BERT** & **BLEU** & **chrF** & **BERT** & **BLEU** & **chrF** & **BERT** \\ \hline GPT-4 & 20.2 & 38.7 & 69.4 & 14.8 & 32.1 & 61.2 & 10.9 & 27.8 & 56.8 \\ Claude-3.5 & 18.6 & 36.3 & 67.1 & 13.1 & 29.6 & 58.9 & 9.4 & 25.2 & 54.3 \\ PaLM-2 & 16.9 & 33.8 & 64.2 & 11.7 & 27.4 & 56.1 & 8.1 & 23.1 & 51.7 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 5: Translation performance across models and target languages. Results show clear performance hierarchies: (1) Arabic consistently outperforms French and English due to linguistic proximity and shared vocabulary, (2) GPT-4 achieves superior performance across all language pairs, with the largest advantage for distant languages, and (3) all models follow the same ranking pattern (Arabic > French > English), indicating robust cross-model linguistic proximity effects. BLEU scores represent lexical overlap, chrF captures morphological accuracy, and BERTScore measures semantic preservation.  
Table 6 compares shot selection approaches across all evaluation metrics. Similarity-based selection consistently achieved the highest performance across all language pairs and metrics, with an average improvement of 2.1 BLEU points, 3.3 chrF points, and 3.1 BERTScore points over random selection. The effectiveness of this strategy is evident across lexical (BLEU), morphological (chrF), and semantic (BERTScore) dimensions of translation quality.  
Figure 4 provides a visual comparison of these shot selection strategies, clearly illustrating the consistent superiority of similarity-based selection across all three target languages, with Arabic maintaining the highest performance levels followed by French and English.  
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{l c c c c c c c c c} \hline \hline \multirow{2}{*}{**Strategy**} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**Arabic**} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**French**} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**English**} \\ \cline{2-10}  & **BLEU** & **chrF** & **BERT** & **BLEU** & **chrF** & **BERT** & **BLEU** & **chrF** & **BERT** \\ \hline Random & 17.4 & 34.2 & 65.1 & 11.9 & 28.7 & 57.8 & 7.8 & 24.1 & 52.3 \\ Similarity & 19.7 & 37.5 & 68.2 & 13.6 & 31.4 & 60.5 & 9.5 & 26.8 & 55.1 \\ Diversity & 18.8 & 36.1 & 66.9 & 12.7 & 29.9 & 59.2 & 8.9 & 25.4 & 53.7 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 6: Shot selection strategy performance across all metrics.  
Figure 4: Shot selection strategy performance.  
Figure 3: Translation Performance vs. Shot Count Across Models and Languages. The graphs demonstrate that performance consistently improves from 1-shot to 8-shot configurations across all model–language combinations, with diminishing returns beyond this point. Arabic translations (blue lines) show the steepest improvement curves and highest peak performance, while English translations (red lines) exhibit more modest gains. The plateau effect after 8 shots suggests optimal context utilization, with slight degradation at 15 shots indicating context window limitations. GPT-4 (solid lines) consistently outperforms other models, maintaining larger performance gaps for typologically distant language pairs.  
Bootstrap confidence intervals (95% CI) confirm that performance differences between optimal and suboptimal configurations are statistically significant (\(p<0.05\)) for all model-language combinations. (see Appendix A.6 for detailed statistical analysis procedures).