Papers by Xiangyao Ma
PDFMathTranslate: Scientific Document Translation Preserving Layouts (2025.emnlp-demos)
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| Challenge: | Prior efforts in translating scientific documents overlooked layouts . PDFMathTranslate is open-source with more than 222k downloads - a record for the first time ever. |
| Approach: | They propose PDFMathTranslate, the world's first open-source software for translating scientific documents while preserving layouts. |
| Outcome: | The work is open-sourced at https://github.com/byaidu/pdfmathtranslate with more than 222k downloads. |
BabelDOC: Better Layout-Preserving PDF Translation via Intermediate Representation (2026.acl-demo)
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| Challenge: | Existing document translation pipelines face a tension between linguistic processing and layout preservation. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for layout-preserving PDF translation that decouples visual layout metadata from semantic content. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves layout fidelity, visual aesthetics, and terminology consistency over representative baselines while maintaining competitive translation precision. |