arXiv Machine Learning

Structure-Preserving Document Translation via Multi-Stage LLM Pipeline: A Case Study in Marathi

arXiv:2606. 28796v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Government documents in India are predominantly issued in regional languages such as Marathi, creating substantial accessibility barriers for non-native readers, interstate administrative bodies, and policy analysts.

arXiv AI
Jul 7

When Simpler Is Better: Evaluating Translation Pipelines for Medieval Latin Manuscripts

arXiv:2607. 03836v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite remarkable progress in machine translation, Vision Language Models (VLMs) struggle on historical manuscripts, a domain that stresses core Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities: low-resource transliteration, archaic vocabulary, and noisy input signals.

By Nguyen Kim Hai Bui, Md. Easin Arafat, Tam\'as G\'abor Orosz, Mufti Mahmud
arXiv AI
Jul 21

DocOCR-Eval: A Correction-Based Framework for OCR Tool Selection Without Ground Truth

arXiv:2607. 16203v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Document parsing is a foundational step for document understanding tasks such as visual question answering and key information extraction, as it transforms unstructured scanned images into structured representations by extracting textual, visual, and layout information.

By Zihan Xu, Puzhen Wu, Lawrence Chun Man Lau, Wei Liu, Sirui Li, Yifan Peng, Yihao Ding
arXiv AI
Jul 8

BaFCo: A Document Understanding Benchmark for Complex Bangla Form Comprehension

arXiv:2607. 05614v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Document comprehension is a challenging yet impactful task for Multimodal Large Language Models, especially as these systems see growing adoption in real-world, human-centric applications.

By Abu Tyeb Azad, Ishita Sur Apan, Fahim Ahmed, Sumaiya Karim Katha, Ezharuddin Jubaer, Armun Alam, Pranjal Kumar Nandi, Amin Ahsan Ali, Aman Chadha, Md Mofijul Islam, AKM Mahbubur Rahman
arXiv AI
Jul 9

DiaLLM: An Investigation into the Robustness-Generation Gap in English Dialect Adaptation

arXiv:2607. 07669v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models increasingly \emph{understand} dialectal English, yet still \emph{produce} only standard, US-leaning English, leaving dialectal generation, the harder half of the problem, largely unaddressed.

By Jordan Painter, Dipankar Srirag, Adarsh Kappiyath, Diptesh Kanojia, Aditya Joshi, Lu Yin
arXiv AI
Aug 12

TongGuOCR: A Layout-Aware and Token-Augmented OCR MLLM for Chinese Historical Documents

arXiv:2608. 07917v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Chinese historical documents preserve valuable cultural heritage, but many collections remain accessible only as scanned page images, preventing full-text retrieval, collation, and computational analysis.

By Zhongheng Zhou, Yi Sun, Huiguo He, Yuyi Zhang, Peirong Zhang, Yulin Fang, Dezhi Peng, Minghui Liao, Lianwen Jin