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Bhasha-Abhijnaanam is a language identification test set for native-script as well as romanized text which spans 22 Indic languages. Benchmarking result on Bhasha-Abhijnaanam test set using IndicLID model can be found here. More details regarding Bhasha-Abhijnaanam can be in the paper.

Downloads

  • The Bhasha-Abhijnaanam dataset can be downloaded from the Bhasha-Abhijnaanam Hugging Face repository
  • Bhasha-Abhijnaanam dataset is a JSONL file consisting of individual data instances comprising a unique identifier, native sentence, romanized sentence(if available), language, script and source.

Test Set

The language-wise statistics for Bhasha-Abhijnaanam is shown in the table with total number of sentences.

Subsetasmbenbrxgujhinkankas (Perso-Arabic)kas (Devanagari)kokmaimalmni (Bengali)mni (Meetei Mayek)marneporipansansidtamtelurd
Native1012560615005797561758592511101215002512562810121500561125121012577625102512589357795751
Romanized5124595433478546064848450044443946170442460342351247654480488147674741

Contributors

Citing

If you are using any of the resources, please cite the following article:

@misc{madhani2023bhashaabhijnaanam,
      title={Bhasha-Abhijnaanam: Native-script and romanized Language Identification for 22 Indic languages}, 
      author={Yash Madhani and Mitesh M. Khapra and Anoop Kunchukuttan},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2305.15814},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}

License

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  • Manually collected data: Released under CC0 license.

CC0 License Statement

  • We do not own any of the text from which this data has been extracted.
  • We license the actual packaging of the mined data under the Creative Commons CC0 license (“no rights reserved”).
  • To the extent possible under law, AI4Bharat has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to Bhasha-Abhijnaanam manually collected data and existing sources.
  • This work is published from: India.

Contact

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology of the Government of India for their generous grant through the Digital India Bhashini project. We also thank the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing for providing compute time on the Param Siddhi Supercomputer. We also thank Nilekani Philanthropies for their generous grant towards building datasets, models, tools and resources for Indic languages. We also thank Microsoft for their grant to support research on Indic languages. We would like to thank Jay Gala and Ishvinder Sethi for their help in coordinating the annotation work. Most importantly we would like to thank all the annotators who helped create the Bhasha-Abhijnaanam benchmark.