Translating Classical Poetry into Modern Prose
Researchers introduce Padyam2Gadyam, a dataset for translating 13th-17th Century Telugu classical poetry into contemporary Telugu and English prose. It includes 600 poems with human-verified translations. Five LLMs were evaluated, showing significant room for improvement in both languages.
[2606.02806] Translating Classical Poetry into Modern Prose
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Title:Translating Classical Poetry into Modern Prose
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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.
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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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