Minidu Nimna

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2026

Code-mixed and Romanized texts are widely used in digital content, yet they remain largely underexplored for many low-resource languages, including Sinhala. The scarcity of high-quality parallel data has limited progress on downstream tasks, such as machine translation and transliteration. We introduce SinMix2Mono, the largest manually annotated parallel training dataset, followed by the first gold standard benchmark and code-mixed transliteration ambiguity corpora for code-mixed romanized Sinhala to Sinhala conversion. The dataset comprises approximately 25,000 real-world sentences collected from social media, covering diverse domains and authentic code-mixing patterns. To ensure high-quality translations, we used an annotation pipeline that combined rule-based transliteration, LLM-assisted translation, and human validation. The golden test dataset, which includes 2549 sentences, and the code-mixed transliteration ambiguity test were validated by three annotators, yielding Gwet’s AC1 scores of 0.7465 and 0.7068, respectively. We benchmarked nine systems, including statistical, neural and commercial LLMs. SinMix2Mono provides a robust training and evaluation resource, establishing a strong benchmark for future research on Sinhala code-mixed translation and transliteration.