The paper presents a local traditional OCR pipeline that can be iteratively fine‑tuned on both layout and appearance levels of complex historical Sanskrit manuscripts. By adapting to the specific manuscript distribution, the pipeline reduces human annotation effort and improves transcription accuracy across subsequent pages. The authors apply this method to three manuscripts, release a dataset with detailed layout and Unicode annotations in PAGE‑XML format, and benchmark the pipeline against leading multimodal large language models.
By Kartik Chincholikar, Kaushik Gopalan, Mihir Hasabnis
The paper presents a local traditional OCR pipeline that can be iteratively fine‑tuned on both layout and appearance levels of complex historical Sanskrit manuscripts. By adapting to the specific manuscript distribution, the pipeline improves transcription accuracy across subsequent pages, reducing the need for costly human annotation. The authors apply the method to three manuscripts, release a dataset with detailed layout and Unicode annotations in PAGE‑XML format, and benchmark the results against leading multimodal large language models.
arXiv:2606. 00012v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-party dialogue discourse parsing aims to identify dependency structures and relation types between utterances in conversations.
By Shannan Liu, Peifeng Li, Yaxin Fan, Qiaoming Zhu
arXiv:2607. 23242v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed conversational AI, yet high-quality multilingual code-mixed dialogue resources remain scarce, particularly for Indic languages where speakers naturally alternate between English and their native language in both native-script and Romanized forms.
By Sahil Deepak Gawande, Mayank Singh
The article surveys multi‑turn conversational AI, highlighting its shift from isolated text prompts to sustained, multimodal interactions that involve clarifying goals, revising requests, and switching topics. It reviews literature across text‑only dialogue, AudioLLMs, multimodal and omni‑modal systems, and tool‑augmented agents, organizing findings around datasets, models, training, evaluation, and cross‑cutting challenges. The analysis reveals that while multimodal perception and action have progressed rapidly, systems still struggle with persistent memory, cross‑turn grounding, full‑duplex interaction, robust evaluation, and cultural alignment.
By Syeda Faiza Ahmed, Zien Sheikh Ali, Hunzalah Hassan Bhatti, Firoj Alam, Shammur Absar Chowdhury
TalkFa introduces a unified benchmark for Farsi dialogue generation and understanding, comprising three datasets: WIKI‑FADIAL (4.2K Wikipedia‑grounded dialogues), DAILYDIALOG‑FA (6.6K dialogues with dialogue‑act and emotion annotations), and PLAYDIAL‑FA (2.1K theatrical dialogues with sentiment labels). All dialogues are curated through multi‑stage review by native speakers, ensuring high quality. Experiments show that LoRA fine‑tuning improves generation performance with less data, while specific models excel on classification tasks, and human evaluation confirms the benchmark’s reliability.
By Neda Jamshidi, Kamyar Zeinalipour, Fahimeh Akbari, Monica Bianchini, Marco Maggini, Marco Gori
arXiv:2608.21853v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language models are increasingly moving beyond text processing, adding support for other modalities such as images and audio. While text understa...
By S{\l}awomir Dadas, Micha{\l} Pere{\l}kiewicz, Rafa{\l} Po\'swiata, Ma{\l}gorzata Gr\k{e}bowiec, Bart{\l}omiej Jaworski, Izabela Wo\'zniakowska
IRWOZ 2.0 is a refined dialogue dataset for industrial human‑robot interaction, expanding to 390 dialogues across four domains—Assembly, Delivery, Position, and Relocation. The dataset was improved using large language models (Mistral and Claude‑3.5) for generation and quality refinement, including manual corrections and automated typo removal. Benchmark tests show a substantial boost in dialogue state‑tracking performance, with GPT‑2’s BLEU‑4 score rising from 0.1651 to 0.5604 compared to the original IRWOZ.
By Chen Li, Dimitrios Chrysostomou
arXiv:2609.00802v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multi-party interaction is a central setting for human communication and a necessary target for human-agent interaction systems that must participate i...
By Taiga Mori, Koji Inoue, Mikey Elmers, Divesh Lala, Tatsuya Kawahara
ManGo is an unsupervised framework for manga visual question answering that actively selects panels, extracts concise clues, and decides when to stop, creating a compact evidence sketch before answering. It introduces Active Narrative Sketching (ANS) and optimizes its behavior using group-relative policy training with two rewards: answer preference from listwise self-ranking and path consistency from stable ordered panel trajectories. Experiments on standard manga understanding benchmarks demonstrate that ManGo achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance across different settings.
By Hao Qiu, Junyan Wang, Zheyuan Liu, Lei Fan, Hong Jia, Lianbo Guo, Zhulin Tao
The paper introduces Synth-JDoc, a synthetic Japanese document image dataset created by rendering text with HTML and CSS to produce multi‑column layouts that include both vertical and horizontal writing styles. Images generated by text‑to‑image models are embedded to enhance visual realism, and noise and degradation filters are applied to improve robustness. Experiments show that fine‑tuning Large Vision Language Models on Synth‑JDoc yields superior performance on reading vertically written Japanese text compared to prior synthetic datasets.
By Keito Sasagawa, Shuhei Kurita, Daisuke Kawahara
OnomatoBridge is a filtering pipeline designed to translate and render onomatopoeia in manga from Japanese to English while preserving the original visual style. The method replaces Japanese onomatopoeia with stylized English text, addressing artifacts and style inconsistencies seen in prior approaches. Experiments on the Manga109 dataset show that OnomatoBridge improves English text correctness by 10–25 points and reduces residual Japanese text by 20–50% compared to baseline image editing models.
By Takara Taniguchi, Wataru Shimoda, Kota Yamaguchi, Hideki Nakayama