README.md

metadata

configs:
  - config_name: indiccorp_v2
    data_files:
      - split: asm_Beng
        path: data/as.txt
      - split: ben_Beng
        path: data/bn.txt
      - split: brx_Deva
        path: data/bd.txt
      - split: doi_Deva
        path: data/dg.txt
      - split: gom_Deva
        path: data/gom.txt
      - split: guj_Gujr
        path: data/gu.txt
      - split: hin_Deva
        path: data/hi-*.txt
      - split: kan_Knda
        path: data/kn.txt
      - split: kas_Arab
        path: data/ks.txt
      - split: mai_Deva
        path: data/mai.txt
      - split: mal_Mlym
        path: data/ml.txt
      - split: mar_Deva
        path: data/mr.txt
      - split: mni_Mtei
        path: data/mni.txt
      - split: npi_Deva
        path: data/ne.txt
      - split: ory_Orya
        path: data/or.txt
      - split: pan_Guru
        path: data/pa.txt
      - split: san_Deva
        path: data/sa.txt
      - split: snd_Deva
        path: data/sd.txt
      - split: tam_Taml
        path: data/ta.txt
      - split: tel_Telu
        path: data/te.txt
      - split: urd_Arab
        path: data/ur.txt
      - split: khasi
        path: data/kha.txt
      - split: santhali
        path: data/sat.txt

IndicCorp v2 Dataset

Towards Leaving No Indic Language Behind: Building Monolingual Corpora, Benchmark and Models for Indic Languages

This repository contains the pretraining data for the paper published at ACL 2023.

Example Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the Telugu subset of the dataset
dataset = load_dataset("ai4bharat/IndicCorpV2", "indiccorp_v2", data_dir="data/tel_Telu")

License

All the datasets created as part of this work will be released under a CC-0 license and all models & code will be release under an MIT license

Citation

@inproceedings{doddapaneni-etal-2023-towards,
    title = "Towards Leaving No {I}ndic Language Behind: Building Monolingual Corpora, Benchmark and Models for {I}ndic Languages",
    author = "Doddapaneni, Sumanth  and
      Aralikatte, Rahul  and
      Ramesh, Gowtham  and
      Goyal, Shreya  and
      Khapra, Mitesh M.  and
      Kunchukuttan, Anoop  and
      Kumar, Pratyush",
    editor = "Rogers, Anna  and
      Boyd-Graber, Jordan  and
      Okazaki, Naoaki",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Toronto, Canada",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.693",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.693",
    pages = "12402--12426",
    abstract = "Building Natural Language Understanding (NLU) capabilities for Indic languages, which have a collective speaker base of more than one billion speakers is absolutely crucial. In this work, we aim to improve the NLU capabilities of Indic languages by making contributions along 3 important axes (i) monolingual corpora (ii) NLU testsets (iii) multilingual LLMs focusing on Indic languages. Specifically, we curate the largest monolingual corpora, IndicCorp, with 20.9B tokens covering 24 languages from 4 language families - a 2.3x increase over prior work, while supporting 12 additional languages. Next, we create a human-supervised benchmark, IndicXTREME, consisting of nine diverse NLU tasks covering 20 languages. Across languages and tasks, IndicXTREME contains a total of 105 evaluation sets, of which 52 are new contributions to the literature. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first effort towards creating a standard benchmark for Indic languages that aims to test the multilingual zero-shot capabilities of pretrained language models. Finally, we train IndicBERT v2, a state-of-the-art model supporting all the languages. Averaged across languages and tasks, the model achieves an absolute improvement of 2 points over a strong baseline. The data and models are available at \url{https://github.com/AI4Bharat/IndicBERT}.",
}