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AI4Bharat-IndicNLP Corpus: Monolingual Corpora and Word Embeddings for Indic Languages

30 Apr 2020arXiv:2005.00085archive 2025-07-28

Anoop Kunchukuttan, Divyanshu Kakwani, Satish Golla, Gokul N. C., Avik Bhattacharyya, Mitesh M. Khapra, Pratyush Kumar

We present the IndicNLP corpus, a large-scale, general-domain corpus containing 2.7 billion words for 10 Indian languages from two language families. We share pre-trained word embeddings trained on these corpora. We create news article category classification datasets for 9 languages to evaluate the embeddings. We show that the IndicNLP embeddings significantly outperform publicly available pre-trained embedding on multiple evaluation tasks. We hope that the availability of the corpus will accelerate Indic NLP research. The resources are available at https://github.com/ai4bharat-indicnlp/indicnlp_corpus.

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