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size_categories:
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language:
- en
- de
- es
- pl
- it
- fr
pretty_name: ForMaT
ForMaT
ForMaT (Format-Preserving Multilingual Translation) is a multilingual parallel corpus of 3,956 PDF documents for layout-aware and multimodal machine translation research.
The dataset preserves original PDF structure and layout metadata, enabling evaluation of translation systems that jointly model textual and visual information. It covers 15 language pairs involving English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Polish.
Features
- Original PDF layout preservation
- Bounding boxes and geometric metadata
- Complex structures such as:
- tables
- formulas
- captions
- multi-column layouts
- Document-level parallel translations
This is a dataset used and described in:
@misc{ciesiółka2026formatdatasetvisuallygroundedmultilingual,
title={ForMaT: Dataset for Visually-Grounded Multilingual PDF Translation},
author={Michał Ciesiółka and Dawid Wiśniewski and Adrian Charkiewicz and Kamil Guttmann},
year={2026},
eprint={2605.15794},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15794},
}