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PaliBench: A Multi-Reference Blueprint for Classical Language Translation Benchmarks

M\'at\'e Metzger, Nadnapang Phophichit

PaliBench shows how to build multi-reference benchmarks for classical language translation from existing scholarly translations without treating any one as definitive.

arxiv:2605.16881 v1 · 2026-05-16 · cs.CL

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The broader contribution is methodological: PaliBench shows how existing scholarly translations can be transformed into evaluation infrastructure for interpretive textual traditions without treating any single translation as definitive.

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The assumption that LLM-assisted alignment of independently segmented translations, automated verification, passage-level quality filtering, and deduplication produce a reliable, unbiased multi-reference dataset that faithfully captures interpretive variation across the three human translations.

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PaliBench is a multi-reference benchmark for Pali-to-English translation built from 1,700 aligned passages of the Sutta Pitaka using three scholarly translations to evaluate LLMs with complementary metrics.

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[2] Nature , volume = 2022

[3] Bamman, David and Burns, Patrick J. , title =. 2020 , note = 2020

[4] Bodhi, Bhikkhu , title =

[5] The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nik

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arxiv: 2605.16881 · arxiv_version: 2605.16881v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.16881 · pith_short_12: TXAUUGXTYJOA · pith_short_16: TXAUUGXTYJOAVNWP · pith_short_8: TXAUUGXT

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