arXiv:2606. 08272v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AgriGov is a curated, trilingual (English-Hindi-Marathi) dataset designed to address the scarcity of domain-grounded multilingual resources for agricultural policies and farmer welfare schemes.
By Mohsina Bilal, Gopakumar G
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.
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 introduces STAR, a metric that measures sentence-level alignment between source and target documents in document-to-document machine translation. Using STAR, the authors develop StarPO, a preference‑optimization framework that ranks translation hypotheses by structural quality and applies a dynamic alignment mask to focus learning on misaligned segments. Experiments on news and literary data show that StarPO improves both translation quality and structural integrity, enabling small models to outperform large proprietary systems such as GPT‑4o while remaining more token‑efficient.
By Yichen Dong, Hao Wang, Junhui Li, Linlong Xu, Longyue Wang, Weihua Luo
arXiv:2606. 24825v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging is a foundational NLP task underpinning machine translation, information extraction, and syntactic parsing.
By Hariom Ingle, Ronit Ghode, Ishwari Gondkar, Jidnyasa Harad, Raviraj Joshi
arXiv:2607. 20385v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for Persian remains substantially less mature than for Latin-script languages despite Persian being spoken by more than 110 million people across multiple countries.
By Pouria Mahdi, Haq Nawaz Malik
MUDIDI is a two-stage framework designed to digitize multilingual dictionaries that are currently only available as scanned images. The first stage assesses character recognition and markup preservation, while the second stage segments dictionary entries and maps them into the SIL Multi-Dictionary Formatter schema. The authors also release a dataset of 30 annotated dictionaries and benchmark OCR, LLM, and VLM systems, finding that LLMs generally outperform others and that providing additional context improves digitization quality.
By David Setiawan, Temuulen Khishigsuren, Milind Agarwal, Pagnarith Pit, Aso Mahmudi, Ekaterina Vylomova
arXiv:2609.40181v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce Index-Translate, a multilingual translation model family that combines a shared multilingual foundation with specialized training for gene...
By Tianjiao Li, Mengran Yu, Chenyu Shi, Lusheng Zhang, Qisi Chen, Yanshan Zhou, Ji Qi, Jingying Liu, Yuang Feng, Ziang Cui, Tianxing Yan
SuTRA (Structurally-Unified Tokenization with Root Awareness) is a morphology-aware tokenization algorithm designed to address the problem of Morphological Shattering in morphologically rich Indic languages. It preserves the indivisibility of aksharas—complex orthographic syllables—by penalizing merges that cross morphological boundaries, thereby reducing over-fragmentation of words. The authors also release a new morphological segmentation dataset for Hindi, Marathi, and Gujarati, and demonstrate that SuTRA improves morphological alignment by up to 14.7% and semantic recoverability by 34% over BPE, leading to an average machine translation gain of +8.08 chrF2.
By Vaibhav Rathore, Siddhant Gole, Dadhichi Telwadkar, Rooshil Bhatia, Maulik Ruparel, Siddharth Surekha, Neha Bhargava
arXiv:2609.21595v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In-context learning using Large Language Models (LLMs) offers a compelling path to training-free post-OCR correction, yet its effectiveness for Devanag...
By Abhishek Bhandari, Gaurav Harit
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
Table understanding is a core task in document intelligence, encompassing two key subtasks: table reconstruction and table visual question answering (TabVQA). While recent approaches predominantly rel...