IndicNLP Resources


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:+1: Featured Resources

  • IIT Bombay English-Hindi Parallel Corpus: Largest en-hi parallel corpora in public domain (about 1.5 million semgents)
  • CVIT-IIITH PIB Multilingual Corpus: Mined from Press Information Bureau for many Indian languages. Contains both English-IL and IL-IL corpora (IL=Indian language).
  • CVIT-IIITH Mann ki Baat Corpus: Mined from Indian PM Narendra Modi’s Mann ki Baat speeches.
  • AI4Bharat IndicNLP Project: Text corpora, word embeddings, text classification datasets for Indian languages.
  • iNLTK: iNLTK aims to provide out of the box support for various NLP tasks that an application developer might need for Indic languages.
  • Dakshina Dataset: The Dakshina dataset is a collection of text in both Latin and native scripts for 12 South Asian languages. Contains an aggregate of around 300k word pairs and 120k sentence pairs. Useful for transliteration.

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:raising_hand:Note: Many known resources have not yet been classified into the catalog. They can be found as open issues in the repo.

Major Indic Language NLP Repositories

Libraries

  • Indic NLP Library: Python Library for various Indian language NLP tasks like tokenization, sentece splitting, normalization, script conversion, transliteration, etc
  • pyiwn: Python Interface to IndoWordNet
  • Indic-OCR : OCR for Indic Scripts
  • CLTK: Toolkit for many of the world’s classical languages. Support for Sanskrit. Some parts of the Sanskrit library are forked from the Indic NLP Library.
  • iNLTK: iNLTK aims to provide out of the box support for various NLP tasks that an application developer might need for Indic languages.
  • Sanskrit Coders Indic Transliteration: Script conversion and ronaization for Indian languages.

Evaluation Benchmarks

Benchmarks spanning multiple tasks.

  • GLUECoS: For Hindi-English code-mixed data containing the following tasks - Language Identification (LID), POS Tagging (POS), Named Entity Recognition (NER), Sentiment Analysis (SA), Question Answering (QA), Natural Language Inference (NLI).
  • AI4Bharat Text Classification: A compilation of classification datasets for 10 languages.

Standards

Text Corpora

Monolingual Corpus

Language Identification

Lexical Resources

NER Corpora

Parallel Translation Corpus

Parallel Transliteration Corpus

Text Classification

Textual Entailment

  • XNLI corpus: Hindi and Urdu test sets and machine translated training sets (from English MultiNLI).

Paraphrase

Sentiment, Sarcasm, Emotion Analysis

Question Answering

Dialog

Discourse

Information Extraction

  • EventXtract-IL: Event extraction for Tamil and Hindi. Described in this paper.
  • [EDNIL-FIRE2020]https://ednilfire.github.io/ednil/2020/index.html): Event extraction for Tamil, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, English. Described in this paper.

POS Tagged corpus

Chunk Corpus

Dependency Parse Corpus

Coreference Corpus

Models

Word Embeddings

Sentence Embeddings

  • BERT Multilingual: BERT model trained on Wikipedias of many languages (including major Indic languages).
  • iNLTK: ULMFit and TransformerXL pre-trained embeddings for many languages trained on Wikipedia and some News articles.
  • albert-base-sanskrit: ALBERT-based model trained on Sanskrit Wikipedia.
  • RoBERTa-hindi-guj-san: Multilingual RoBERTa like model trained on Hindi, Sanskrit and Gujarati.

Multilingual Word Embeddings

Morphanalyzers

SMT Models

Speech Corpora

OCR Corpora

Multimodal Corpora

Language Specific Catalogs

Pointers to language-specific NLP resource catalogs