arXiv Computation and Language September 3, 2026 By David Setiawan, Temuulen Khishigsuren, Milind Agarwal, Pagnarith Pit, Aso Mahmudi, Ekaterina Vylomova

MUDIDI: A Two-Stage Framework for Multilingual Dictionary Digitization with Language Models

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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.

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