CzechDocs: A Multiway Parallel Dataset of Formatted Documents for Minority Languages in Czechia

Josef Jon, Ondřej Bojar


Abstract
We present CzechDocs, a multiway parallel dataset of formatted documents (HTML, DOCX, and PDF) covering Czech and minority languages used in Czechia—primarily Ukrainian and English, with smaller portions of Vietnamese, Russian and other languages. The dataset is designed to support the evaluation of machine translation systems that aim to preserve document formatting during translation. We provide a comparison of the most common approaches to format-preserving machine translation on a validation subset of the dataset. This validation split, together with the evaluation toolkit, is publicly released for further research. A held-out test split will be reserved for a future shared task focused on document-level translation with formatting preservation.
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2026.lrec-main.34
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Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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May
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2026
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Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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Stelios Piperidis, Núria Bel, Henk van den Heuvel, Nancy Ide, Simon Krek, Antonio Toral
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LREC
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ELRA Language Resource Association
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498–504
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Josef Jon and Ondřej Bojar. 2026. CzechDocs: A Multiway Parallel Dataset of Formatted Documents for Minority Languages in Czechia. International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, main:498–504.
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CzechDocs: A Multiway Parallel Dataset of Formatted Documents for Minority Languages in Czechia (Jon & Bojar, LREC 2026)
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