Sāmayik: A Benchmark and Dataset for English-Sanskrit Translation

05/23/2023

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by   Ayush Maheshwari, et al.

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Sanskrit is a low-resource language with a rich heritage. Digitized Sanskrit corpora reflective of the contemporary usage of Sanskrit, specifically that too in prose, is heavily under-represented at present. Presently, no such English-Sanskrit parallel dataset is publicly available. We release a dataset, Sāmayik, of more than 42,000 parallel English-Sanskrit sentences, from four different corpora that aim to bridge this gap. Moreover, we also release benchmarks adapted from existing multilingual pretrained models for Sanskrit-English translation. We include training splits from our contemporary dataset and the Sanskrit-English parallel sentences from the training split of Itihāsa, a previously released classical era machine translation dataset containing Sanskrit.