3 papers
cs.CL2026
Generative vs. Encoder Models for Multilingual NER: A Comprehensive Empirical Study on Naamapadam
Jakkala Mahesh, Jatavath Shravan Kumar, Komalla Shivani +1
Language is humanity's most consequential technology, yet for over a billion speakers across India's twenty-two constitutionally recognised languages, its digital layer remains str…
cs.CL2026
Padārtha: Ontology-Grounded Fine-Grained NER Benchmark for Classical Sanskrit
Sujoy Sarkar, Pretam Ray, Paramhans Shah +4
Annotation schemas are not neutral. When applied to classical literature, tag sets developed for modern journalistic texts impose source-culture definitions on texts they were neve…
cs.CL2025
Mahānāma: A Unique Testbed for Literary Entity Discovery and Linking
Sujoy Sarkar, Gourav Sarkar, Manoj Balaji Jagadeeshan +3
High lexical variation, ambiguous references, and long-range dependencies make entity resolution in literary texts particularly challenging. We present Mahānāma, the first large-sc…