Virendra Singh
2025
Video-guided Machine Translation: A Survey of Models, Datasets, and Challenges
Pinaki Das
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Virendra Singh
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Pushpak Bhattacharyya
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Gholamreza Haffari
Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
In recent years, machine translation has evolved with the integration of multimodal information. Infusion of multi-modality into translation tasks decreases ambiguation and enhances translation scores. Common modalities include images, speech, and videos, which provide additional context alongside the text to be translated. While multimodal translation with images has been extensively studied, video-guided machine translation (VMT) has gained increasing attention, particularly since Wang et al. 2019 first explored this task. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive overview of VMT, highlighting its unique challenges, methodologies, and recent advancements. Unlike previous surveys that primarily focus on image-guided multimodal machine translation, this work explores the distinct complexities and opportunities introduced by adding video as a modality to the translation task.
LRMGS: A Language-Robust Metric for Evaluating Question Answering in Very Low-Resource Indic Languages
Anuj Kumar
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Satyadev Ahlawat
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Yamuna Prasad
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Virendra Singh
The 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and The 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Reliable evaluation of Question Answering (QA) systems in low-resource Indic languages presents a significant challenge due to limited annotated datasets, linguistic diversity, and suitable evaluation metrics. Languages such as Sindhi, Manipuri, Dogri, Konkani, and Maithili are particularly underrepresented, creating difficulty in assessing Large Language Models (LLMs) on QA tasks. Existing metrics, including BLEU, ROUGE-L, and BERTScore, are effective in machine translation and high-resource settings; however, they often fail in low-resource QA due to score compression, zero-inflation, and poor scale alignment. To overcome this, LRMGS (Language-Robust Metric for Generative QA) is introduced to capture semantic and lexical agreement while preserving the score scale across languages. LRMGS is evaluated across 8 Indic languages and multiple LLMs, demonstrating consistently higher concordance with reference-based chrF++ scores, measured using the Concordance Correlation Coefficient (CCC). Experimental results indicate that LRMGS provides more accurate discrimination of system performance in very low-resource languages compared to existing metrics. This work establishes a robust and interpretable framework for evaluating QA systems in low-resource Indic languages, supporting more reliable multilingual model assessment.
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