MITRA: A Large-Scale Parallel Corpus and Multilingual Pretrained Language Model for Machine Translation and Semantic Retrieval for Pāli, Sanskrit, Buddhist Chinese, and Tibetan
Ancient Buddhist literature features frequent, yet often unannotated, textual parallels spread across diverse languages: Sanskrit, Pāli, Buddhist Chinese, Tibetan, and more. The scale of this material makes manual examination prohibitive. We present the MITRA framework, which consists of a novel pipeline for multilingual parallel...