MUDIDI: A Two-Stage Framework for Multilingual Dictionary Digitization with Language Models

arXiv:2606.09435 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-06-08 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-06-08

Updated: 2026-09-02

Code: https://github.com/DavidSamuell/MUDIDI

Terminology

• Ablation — 12× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Two-Stage Framework — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation Studies — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• F1 Score — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Low-Resource Languages — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Ablation study — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Optical Character Recognition — 1× in this paper

Sources

• Qwen2.5-VL Technical Report
• PaddleOCR-VL: Boosting Multilingual Document Parsing via a 0.9B Ultra-Compact Vision-Language Model
• GLM-OCR Technical Report
• Multimodal LLMs for OCR, OCR Post-Correction, and Named Entity Recognition in Historical Documents
• Vision-Enabled LLMs in Historical Lexicography: Digitising and Enriching Estonian-German Dictionaries from the 17th and 18th Centuries
• Real5-OmniDocBench: A Full-Scale Physical Reconstruction Benchmark for Robust Document Parsing in the Wild
• dots.ocr: Multilingual Document Layout Parsing in a Single Vision-Language Model

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