Translating Classical Poetry into Modern Prose
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Title:Translating Classical Poetry into Modern Prose
Abstract:We introduce Padyam2Gadyam, a dataset for the task of poem-to-prose translation from 13th-17th Century Telugu Classical Poetry to contemporary Telugu and English prose. The dataset consists of 600 poems and their human-verified Telugu and English prose translations. We evaluated 5 contemporary Large Language Models (LLMs) on their ability to do poem-to-prose translation into Telugu and English. Our results indicate that while there are differences across LLMs, their overall performance leave a large room for improvement in both languages. Through qualitative analysis, we discuss the the capabilities and limitations of contemporary MT evaluation approaches for this task.
| Comments: | Preprint |
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2606.02806 [cs.CL] |
| (or arXiv:2606.02806v1 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.02806
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From: Kranti Chalamalasetti [view email][v1] Mon, 1 Jun 2026 19:24:50 UTC (521 KB)
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