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New benchmark evaluates LLMs on Urdu idioms

A new benchmark dataset has been developed to evaluate how well large language models (LLMs) handle Urdu idioms. The dataset includes 4,000 manually verified idiom sentence pairs in both the native Urdu script and Romanized Urdu. Researchers found that current LLMs perform better than traditional neural machine translation systems in understanding and translating figurative language, though challenges remain with the inconsistent orthography of Romanized Urdu. AI

IMPACT Establishes a benchmark for evaluating LLM performance on low-resource languages, potentially guiding future development for multilingual NLP.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing a new benchmark for evaluating LLMs on a specific language task. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New benchmark evaluates LLMs on Urdu idioms

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 (CA) · Muhammad Farmal Khan, Mousumi Akter ·

    Evaluating Large Language Models on Urdu Idioms

    arXiv:2510.17460v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Idioms remain a persistent challenge in natural language processing due to their figurative and culturally grounded meanings, which distinguish them from literal expressions. Although recent advances in large language models (LL…