6 papers
Scripts Through Time: A Survey of the Evolving Role of Transliteration in NLP
Thanmay Jayakumar, Deepon Halder, Raj Dabre
Cross-lingual transfer in NLP is often hindered by the ``script barrier'' where differences in writing systems inhibit transfer learning between languages. Transliteration, the pro…
IndicIFEval: A Benchmark for Verifiable Instruction-Following Evaluation in 14 Indic Languages
Thanmay Jayakumar, Mohammed Safi Ur Rahman Khan, Raj Dabre +2
Instruction-following benchmarks remain predominantly English-centric, leaving a critical evaluation gap for the hundreds of millions of Indic language speakers. We introduce Indic…
RiddleBench: A New Generative Reasoning Benchmark for LLMs
Deepon Halder, Alan Saji, Thanmay Jayakumar +3
Large Language Models have demonstrated strong performance on many established reasoning benchmarks. However, these benchmarks primarily evaluate structured skills like quantitativ…
CaMMT: Benchmarking Culturally Aware Multimodal Machine Translation
Emilio Villa-Cueva, Sholpan Bolatzhanova, Diana Turmakhan +32
Translating cultural content poses challenges for machine translation systems due to the differences in conceptualizations between cultures, where language alone may fail to convey…
CycleDistill: Bootstrapping Machine Translation using LLMs with Cyclical Distillation
Deepon Halder, Thanmay Jayakumar, Raj Dabre
Large language models (LLMs), despite their ability to perform few-shot machine translation (MT), often lag behind dedicated MT systems trained on parallel corpora, which are cruci…
RomanLens: The Role Of Latent Romanization In Multilinguality In LLMs
Alan Saji, Jaavid Aktar Husain, Thanmay Jayakumar +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit strong multilingual performance despite being predominantly trained on English-centric corpora. This raises a fundamental question: How do LLMs…