BhashaBench-Multi (Legal)

Overview

BhashaBench-Multi (Legal) is a domain-specific multiple-choice benchmark evaluating LLM knowledge of Indian law across 22 Indic languages. Each question originates in English and is machine translated (with LLM-judged translation quality scores) into the target language; this adapter uses the translated question/choices.

Task Description

• Task Type: Domain-Specific Multiple-Choice Question Answering

• Input: A Indian law question with 4 answer choices, in one of 22 Indic languages

• Output: Correct answer letter

• Languages: Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu

Key Features

• ~14,963 questions per language across 22 Indic languages per domain (~330k total per domain)

• Machine-translated from English with LLM-judged translation quality scores

• 22 scheduled languages of India, all in native script; no English split

• Four domains available as separate benchmarks: Ayurveda, Finance, Krishi, Legal

Evaluation Notes

• Default configuration uses 0-shot evaluation (test split, the only split available)

• Use subset_list to evaluate specific languages (e.g., ['Hindi', 'Tamil']), or limit to cap sample count — each domain is ~14,963 questions per language across 22 languages (~330k total), so evaluating every language’s full split is a large run

• No English split exists for this dataset

Properties

Property	Value
Benchmark Name	bhasha_bench_multi_legal
Dataset ID	bharatgenai/BhashaBench-Multi
Paper	N/A
Tags	Knowledge, MCQ, MultiLingual
Metrics	accuracy
Default Shots	0-shot
Evaluation Split	test

Data Statistics

Metric	Value
Total Samples	536,030
Prompt Length (Mean)	490.89 chars
Prompt Length (Min/Max)	225 / 6384 chars

Per-Subset Statistics:

Subset	Samples	Prompt Mean	Prompt Min	Prompt Max
Assamese	24,365	475.08	232	2556
Bengali	24,365	482.5	235	2066
Bodo	24,365	521.23	225	4608
Dogri	24,365	487.72	225	4432
Gujarati	24,365	463.64	232	1954
Hindi	24,365	489.37	232	2202
Kannada	24,365	475.35	232	2068
Kashmiri	24,365	514.54	242	5037
Konkani	24,365	473.95	225	4000
Maithili	24,365	473.11	225	4011
Malayalam	24,365	511.29	236	2218
Manipuri	24,365	548.36	238	6384
Marathi	24,365	487.86	232	2113
Nepali	24,365	475.87	234	2058
Oriya	24,365	458.86	232	1936
Punjabi	24,365	483.03	232	2138
Sanskrit	24,365	489.0	233	1979
Santhali	24,365	549.75	233	5074
Sindhi	24,365	455.74	234	1830
Tamil	24,365	522.97	237	2479
Telugu	24,365	481.32	234	1992
Urdu	24,365	479.13	235	2120

Sample Example

Subset: Assamese

{
  "input": [
    {
      "id": "e631cc6e",
      "content": "Answer the following multiple choice question. The entire content of your response should be of the following format: 'ANSWER: [LETTER]' (without quotes) where [LETTER] is one of A,B,C,D.\n\nকোনো আদেশ প্ৰকাশ কৰাৰ পূৰ্বতে কোনো সমস্যা সংশোধন কৰাৰ বা নতুন সমস্যা উত্থাপন কৰাৰ ক্ষমতা আদালতৰ ওচৰত থাকে, আৰু এই ক্ষমতা দিয়া হয় দেৱানী প্রক্রিয়া বিধি, ১৯০৮-ৰ কোনটো ব্যৱস্থাৰ দ্বাৰা?\n\nA) অধ্যায় ১৪, বিধি ১\nB) অধ্যায় ১৪, বিধি ৫\nC) অধ্যায় XIV, বিধি ৬\nD) ধাৰা ১৫১"
    }
  ],
  "choices": [
    "অধ্যায় ১৪, বিধি ১",
    "অধ্যায় ১৪, বিধি ৫",
    "অধ্যায় XIV, বিধি ৬",
    "ধাৰা ১৫১"
  ],
  "target": "B",
  "id": 0,
  "group_id": 0,
  "metadata": {
    "language": "Assamese",
    "topic": "Procedural Law"
  }
}

Prompt Template

Prompt Template:

Answer the following multiple choice question. The entire content of your response should be of the following format: 'ANSWER: [LETTER]' (without quotes) where [LETTER] is one of {letters}.

{question}

{choices}

Usage

Using CLI

evalscope eval \
    --model YOUR_MODEL \
    --api-url OPENAI_API_COMPAT_URL \
    --api-key EMPTY_TOKEN \
    --datasets bhasha_bench_multi_legal \
    --limit 10  # Remove this line for formal evaluation

Using Python

from evalscope import run_task
from evalscope.config import TaskConfig

task_cfg = TaskConfig(
    model='YOUR_MODEL',
    api_url='OPENAI_API_COMPAT_URL',
    api_key='EMPTY_TOKEN',
    datasets=['bhasha_bench_multi_legal'],
    dataset_args={
        'bhasha_bench_multi_legal': {
            # subset_list: ['Assamese', 'Bengali', 'Bodo']  # optional, evaluate specific subsets
        }
    },
    limit=10,  # Remove this line for formal evaluation
)

run_task(task_cfg=task_cfg)