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Overview
- SwiLTra-Bench is a comprehensive legal translation benchmark with 1,500+ sentence pairs in German, French, Italian, and Romansh
- Created from Swiss legal documents including federal laws, cantonal laws, and court decisions
- Evaluates translation across language pairs, document types, and legal domains
- Tests general-purpose models (GPT-4) and specialized legal models (LLaMarch-MLLM-1)
- Includes a new metric (Swiss-BLEU) that accounts for Swiss language-specific variations
Plain English Explanation
SwiLTra-Bench tackles a common problem in legal systems that operate in multiple languages: accurate translation. Switzerland is a perfect test case with its four official languages (German, French, Italian, and Romansh).
When laws need to be translated, precision matters tre...
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