Literary Translation with LLMs

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Topic- Literary Translation with LLMs: Building a Style-Aware Long-Form Translation Pipeline

In Sahaj Software's upcoming Devday in Bangalore, Sachin will dive into one of the most challenging frontiers of applied AI: long-form literary translation with Large Language Models.While modern LLMs can translate text with impressive fluency, they often fall short where it matters most in literature, preserving the author’s voice. Over longer works, translations tend to drift in tone, lose rhythm, flatten dialogue, and introduce stylistic inconsistencies, even when the core meaning remains intact.

In this session, Sachin will explore how to build a style-aware long-form translation pipeline that maintains both semantic accuracy and literary identity. He will walk through practical system design patterns for handling long documents, including extracting a reusable style signature, translating in coherent chunks without breaking narrative flow, enforcing consistency across characters and terminology, and applying document-level refinement to reduce style drift.

The talk will also cover modern evaluation approaches that move beyond traditional metrics like BLEU. The focus will be on measuring style preservation, coherence, and consistency using a mix of automated signals and human evaluation rubrics.Attendees will walk away with a clear blueprint and reusable templates for building translation systems that go beyond “correct” output, toward translations that feel human, intentional, and faithful to the original author.

This session is ideal for developers, ML practitioners, researchers, and anyone interested in applying LLMs to real-world, high-fidelity language problems. Join us at this DevDay to explore how AI can translate not just words, but voice.

Agenda
5:30 PM – 6:00 PM: Registration verification
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM: Talk
7:30 PM – 8:00 PM: Networking and snacks

About the speaker
Sachin Kumar Yadav
Solution Consultant, Sahaj Software
Sachin is a Data Science Consultant and technology enthusiast at Sahaj Software. With expertise in core NLP, computer vision, and machine learning, he is passionate about solving problems across domains by leveraging intelligent systems. His experience spans diverse sectors, including e-commerce and fintech, where he has applied modern AI/ML techniques to deliver impactful solutions. Recently, he has also been working on GenAI/LLM-based systems, including language translation and AI agent workflows.