| ## IndicNLP News Article Classification Dataset | |
| We used the IndicNLP text corpora to create classification datasets comprising news articles and their categories for 9 languages. The dataset is balanced across classes. The following table contains the statistics of our dataset: | |
| | Language | Classes | Articles per Class | | |
| | --------- | ------------------------------------------- | ------------------ | | |
| | Bengali | entertainment, sports | 7K | | |
| | Gujarati | business, entertainment, sports | 680 | | |
| | Kannada | entertainment, lifestyle, sports | 10K | | |
| | Malayalam | business, entertainment, sports, technology | 1.5K | | |
| | Marathi | entertainment, lifestyle, sports | 1.5K | | |
| | Oriya | business, crime, entertainment, sports | 7.5K | | |
| | Punjabi | business, entertainment, sports, politics | 780 | | |
| | Tamil | entertainment, politics, sport | 3.9K | | |
| | Telugu | entertainment, business, sports | 8K | | |
| ## Citing | |
| If you are using any of the resources, please cite the following article: | |
| ``` | |
| @article{kunchukuttan2020indicnlpcorpus, | |
| title={AI4Bharat-IndicNLP Corpus: Monolingual Corpora and Word Embeddings for Indic Languages}, | |
| author={Anoop Kunchukuttan and Divyanshu Kakwani and Satish Golla and Gokul N.C. and Avik Bhattacharyya and Mitesh M. Khapra and Pratyush Kumar}, | |
| year={2020}, | |
| journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.00085}, | |
| } | |
| ``` | |