{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/indicnlpsuite-monolingual-corpora-evaluation","title":"IndicNLPSuite: Monolingual Corpora, Evaluation Benchmarks and Pre-trained Multilingual Language Models for Indian Languages","arxiv_id":null,"date":"2020-11-08","proceeding":"Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020","authors":["Divyanshu Kakwani","Anoop Kunchukuttan","Satish Golla","Gokul N.C.","Avik Bhattacharyya","Mitesh M. Khapra","Pratyush Kumar."],"abstract":"In this paper, we introduce NLP resources for 11 major Indian languages from two major language families. These resources include:\r\n(a) large-scale sentence-level monolingual corpora, (b) pre-trained word embeddings, (c) pre-trained language models, and (d) multiple NLU evaluation datasets (IndicGLUE benchmark). The monolingual corpora contains a total of 8.8 billion tokens across all 11 languages and Indian English, primarily sourced from news crawls. The word embeddings are based on FastText, hence suitable for handling morphological complexity of Indian languages. The pre-trained language models are based on the compact ALBERT model. Lastly, we compile the IndicGLUE benchmark for Indian language NLU. To this end, we create datasets for the following tasks: Article Genre Classification, Headline Prediction, Wikipedia Section-Title Prediction, Cloze-style Multiple choice QA, Winograd NLI and COPA. We also include publicly available datasets for some Indic languages for tasks like Named Entity Recognition, Cross-lingual Sentence Retrieval, Paraphrase detection, etc. Our embeddings are competitive or better than existing pre-trained embeddings on multiple tasks. We hope that the availability of the dataset will accelerate Indic NLP research which has the potential to impact more than a billion people. It can also help the community in evaluating advances in NLP over a more diverse pool of languages. The data and models are available at https://indicnlp.ai4bharat.org.","url_abs":"https://aclanthology.org/2020.findings-emnlp.445","url_pdf":"https://aclanthology.org/2020.findings-emnlp.445.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"indicnlpsuite-monolingual-corpora-evaluation","repo_url":"https://github.com/AI4Bharat/indic-bert","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"tf","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"genre-classification","task_name":"Genre classification"},{"task_slug":"multiple-choice-qa","task_name":"Multiple Choice Question Answering (MCQA)"},{"task_slug":"multiple-choice","task_name":"Multiple-choice"},{"task_slug":"named-entity-recognition-1","task_name":"Named Entity Recognition"},{"task_slug":"named-entity-recognition-ner","task_name":"Named Entity Recognition (NER)"},{"task_slug":"news-classification","task_name":"News Classification"},{"task_slug":"retrieval","task_name":"Retrieval"},{"task_slug":"sentence","task_name":"Sentence"},{"task_slug":"sentence-retrieval","task_name":"Sentence Retrieval"},{"task_slug":"sentiment-analysis","task_name":"Sentiment Analysis"},{"task_slug":"word-embeddings","task_name":"Word Embeddings"},{"task_slug":"named-entity-recognition","task_name":"named-entity-recognition"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"albert","method_name":"ALBERT"},{"method_slug":"adam","method_name":"Adam"},{"method_slug":"attention","method_name":"Attention"},{"method_slug":"dense-connections","method_name":"Dense Connections"},{"method_slug":"lamb","method_name":"LAMB"},{"method_slug":"layer-normalization","method_name":"Layer Normalization"},{"method_slug":"linear-layer","method_name":"Linear Layer"},{"method_slug":"multi-head-attention","method_name":"Multi-Head Attention"},{"method_slug":"residual-connection","method_name":"Residual Connection"},{"method_slug":"softmax","method_name":"Softmax"},{"method_slug":"wordpiece","method_name":"WordPiece"}],"datasets_introduced":[{"slug":"indiccorp","name":"IndicCorp","full_name":""},{"slug":"indicglue","name":"IndicGLUE","full_name":"Indic General Language Understanding Evaluation Benchmark"}],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[{"leaderboard":"/sota/multiple-choice-qa-on-indicglue-wstp-pa","task":"Multiple Choice Question Answering (MCQA)","dataset":"IndicGLUE WSTP Pa","model":"IndicBERT Large","rank_in_archive_order":2,"of":3,"metrics":{"Accuracy":"77.54"},"uses_additional_data":false},{"leaderboard":"/sota/news-classification-on-soham-news-article","task":"News Classification","dataset":"Soham News Article Classification","model":"IndicBERT Base","rank_in_archive_order":3,"of":3,"metrics":{"Accuracy":"78.45"},"uses_additional_data":false},{"leaderboard":"/sota/sentiment-analysis-on-iitp-movie-reviews","task":"Sentiment Analysis","dataset":"IITP Movie Reviews Sentiment","model":"IndicBERT Base","rank_in_archive_order":3,"of":3,"metrics":{"Accuracy":"59.03"},"uses_additional_data":false},{"leaderboard":"/sota/sentiment-analysis-on-iitp-product-reviews","task":"Sentiment Analysis","dataset":"IITP Product Reviews Sentiment","model":"IndicBERT Base","rank_in_archive_order":4,"of":4,"metrics":{"Accuracy":"71.32"},"uses_additional_data":false}],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}