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| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| language: |
| - prs |
| - fa |
| - en |
| task_categories: |
| - translation |
| pretty_name: "Sawda: Intent-Preserving Translation in Trade Communication (Dari/Farsi–English)" |
| size_categories: |
| - n<1K |
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| |
| # Sawda |
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| A pilot benchmark for **intent-preserving translation of culturally loaded trade |
| communication** between Afghan Dari and English. 60 native-validated fictional |
| items; 324 translations from six open-weights systems; 180 blind human judgments |
| by a native Dari speaker; two LLM-judge calibration sets. |
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| Paper and code: https://github.com/MurtazaKafka/sawda-bench |
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| ## Files |
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| | file | contents | |
| |---|---| |
| | `data/items.jsonl` | 60 validated items: `id`, `direction` (fa2en/en2fa), `utterance_src`, `context`, `literal_render`, `intent_render`, `pragmatic_note`, `failure_class`, `tranche` (seed/lit/synth), `lang_code` | |
| | `data/translations.jsonl` | 324 system outputs (54 eval items × 6 systems), verbatim, with measured token usage; 4 empty outputs flagged | |
| | `data/human_judgments.jsonl` | 180 blind native-speaker judgments: intent (3/2/1), appropriateness (1–7), notes, quick-flags | |
| | `data/llm_judgments.jsonl`, `data/llm_judgments_rubric_v1.jsonl` | DeepSeek v4-pro judge calibration (rubric v2 and v1) | |
| | `data/fable_judgments.jsonl` | Claude Fable 5 panel calibration | |
| | `data/heldout_ids.json` | 6 items held out as few-shot exemplars (excluded from evaluation) | |
| | `data/judging_plan.json` | The randomized blind judging order | |
| | `drafts/*.jsonl` | Pre-validation drafts, released for diffing against validated items | |
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| ## Data statement (summary) |
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| - **Language variety**: the Persian side is **Afghan Dari** (all items carry |
| `lang_code: prs_Arab`); Iranian Farsi appears only as an unwanted output |
| register in system translations. Direction field names `fa2en`/`en2fa` are |
| legacy labels denoting Dari. |
| - **Provenance**: 8 seed items written by a native Dari speaker from lived |
| trade/family-business communication; 20 items grounded in the taarof and |
| business-pragmatics literatures; 32 validated synthetic variants. All items |
| are fictional: no real names, businesses, or identifying details. |
| - **Annotation**: a single native Dari-speaking validator/judge (the benchmark |
| author). Judgments are blind to system identity but not item provenance. |
| No inter-annotator agreement is available yet. |
| - **Known limitations**: pilot scale (30 judged items); machine judge labels |
| failed calibration (κ ≤ 0.17) and are released as calibration data only, |
| not evaluation labels. |
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| ## Ethics |
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| Dari materials involve communities under active persecution. All items are |
| fictional. See the paper's Ethical Considerations section. |
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| ## Citation |
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| Paper draft in the GitHub repo (`paper/`). Formal citation forthcoming. |
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