arxivcs.CVcs.AIcs.CL2026-07-04
When Simpler Is Better: Evaluating Translation Pipelines for Medieval Latin Manuscripts
Nguyen Kim Hai Bui, Md. Easin Arafat, Tamás Gábor Orosz, Mufti Mahmud
Despite remarkable progress in machine translation, Vision Language Models (VLMs) struggle on historical manuscripts, a domain that stresses core Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities: low-resource transliteration, archaic vocabulary, and noisy input signals. We present…