International Journal of Informatics and Communication Technology (IJ-ICT)
Vol 15, No 3: September 2026

Bridging the linguistic divide: recent developments in machine translation for Indian languages

Jayanand A. Kamble (Dr. Babashaeb Ambedkar Technological University)
Shivajirao M. Jadhav (Dr. Babashaeb Ambedkar Technological University)
Vinod J. Kadam (Dr. Babashaeb Ambedkar Technological University)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Sep 2026

Abstract

Significant advances have been achieved in machine translation (MT) in recent times, particularly state of the art (SOTA) models for languages like English and Indian having distinct grammatical structures and limited monolingual training data. This paper analyses various recent state-of-the-art variants of large language models (LLMs) and neural machine translation (NMT) for Indian languages in comparison to statistical machine translation (SMT). It tackles key questions, such as idiomatic expressions, morphologically complex grammar or the scarceness of parallel corpora. Furthermore, it studies bytewise BPE, compares translation models in terms of BLEU scores using separate and shared-vocabulary representation with copy actions between the BPE translations, and analyses how multitask learning (Caruana (1997)) and attention mechanisms can contribute to the quality of translation. In summary, it provides directions for future work by suggesting new avenues of research including better curated datasets, more efficient approaches for lowresource languages and culturally aware translations.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJICT

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Subject

Computer Science & IT

Description

International Journal of Informatics and Communication Technology (IJ-ICT) is a common platform for publishing quality research paper as well as other intellectual outputs. This Journal is published by Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science (IAES) whose aims is to promote the dissemination of ...