Publications

Relevant Publications

Chronological list of key peer‑reviewed outputs underpinning the project.

2025

• MITRA‑zh‑eval: Using a Buddhist Chinese Language Evaluation Dataset to Assess Machine Translation and Evaluation Metrics. Sebastian Nehrdich, Avery Chen, Marcus Bingenheimer, Lu Huang, Rouying Tang, Xiang Wei, Leijie Zhu, Kurt Keutzer. Proc. 5th Intl. Conf. on NLP for Digital Humanities, Albuquerque, pp. 129–137. ACL Anthology · DOI: 10.18653/v1/2025.nlp4dh-1.12

2024

• Breakthroughs in Tibetan NLP & Digital Humanities. Marieke Meelen, Sebastian Nehrdich, Kurt Keutzer. Revue d’Études Tibétaines, No. 72 (July 2024, Proceedings of the IATS 2022 Panel), pp. 5–25.
• One Model is All You Need: ByT5-Sanskrit, a Unified Model for Sanskrit NLP Tasks. Sebastian Nehrdich, Oliver Hellwig, Kurt Keutzer. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, Miami, pp. 13742–13751. ACL Anthology

2023

• Observations on the Intertextuality of Selected Abhidharma Texts Preserved in Chinese Translation. Sebastian Nehrdich. Religions, Vol. 14, No. 7, Art. 911. DOI
• MITRA‑zh: An efficient, open machine translation solution for Buddhist Chinese. Sebastian Nehrdich, Marcus Bingenheimer, Justin Brody, Kurt Keutzer. Proceedings of the Joint 3rd Intl. Conf. on NLP for Digital Humanities & 8th IWCLUL, Tokyo, pp. 266–277. ACL Anthology

2022

• SansTib, a Sanskrit - Tibetan Parallel Corpus and Bilingual Sentence Embedding Model. Sebastian Nehrdich. Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022), Marseille, pp. 6728–6734. ACL Anthology

2020

• A Method for the Calculation of Parallel Passages for Buddhist Chinese Sources Based on Million-scale Nearest Neighbor Search. Sebastian Nehrdich. Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities (Special Issue: Buddhism and Technology), Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 132–153. J-STAGE

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