Estonian WinoGrande Dataset: Comparative Analysis of LLM Performance on Human and Machine Translation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17290v1
• Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:01:57 GMT
• Title: Estonian WinoGrande Dataset: Comparative Analysis of LLM Performance on Human and Machine Translation
• Authors: Marii Ojastu, Hele-Andra Kuulmets, Aleksei Dorkin, Marika Borovikova, Dage Särg, Kairit Sirts,
• Abstract summary: We present a localized and culturally adapted Estonian translation of the WinoGrande test set.<n>We evaluate the performance of both proprietary and open source models on the human translated benchmark.
• Score: 2.7297730504383892
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In this paper, we present a localized and culturally adapted Estonian translation of the test set from the widely used commonsense reasoning benchmark, WinoGrande. We detail the translation and adaptation process carried out by translation specialists and evaluate the performance of both proprietary and open source models on the human translated benchmark. Additionally, we explore the feasibility of achieving high-quality machine translation by incorporating insights from the manual translation process into the design of a detailed prompt. This prompt is specifically tailored to address both the linguistic characteristics of Estonian and the unique translation challenges posed by the WinoGrande dataset. Our findings show that model performance on the human translated Estonian dataset is slightly lower than on the original English test set, while performance on machine-translated data is notably worse. Additionally, our experiments indicate that prompt engineering offers limited improvement in translation quality or model accuracy, and highlight the importance of involving language specialists in dataset translation and adaptation to ensure reliable and interpretable evaluations of language competency and reasoning in large language models.

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