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

Abstract

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.

7 pages, 8 tables, https://github.com/ai4bharat-indicnlp/indicnlp_corpus

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