A Multilingual Parallel Corpora Collection Effort for Indian Languages
Shashank Siripragada, Jerin Philip, Vinay P. Namboodiri, C V Jawahar
Abstract
We present sentence aligned parallel corpora across 10 Indian Languages - Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Gujarati, Urdu, Bengali, Oriya, Marathi, Punjabi, and English - many of which are categorized as low resource. The corpora are compiled from online sources which have content shared across languages. The corpora presented significantly extends present resources that are either not large enough or are restricted to a specific domain (such as health). We also provide a separate test corpus compiled from an independent online source that can be independently used for validating the performance in 10 Indian languages. Alongside, we report on the methods of constructing such corpora using tools enabled by recent advances in machine translation and cross-lingual retrieval using deep neural network based methods.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.lrec-1.462
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Marseille, France
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3743–3751
- Language:
- English
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.462
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Shashank Siripragada, Jerin Philip, Vinay P. Namboodiri, and C V Jawahar. 2020. A Multilingual Parallel Corpora Collection Effort for Indian Languages. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 3743–3751, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
- Cite (Informal):
- A Multilingual Parallel Corpora Collection Effort for Indian Languages (Siripragada et al., LREC 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-2/2020.lrec-1.462.pdf
- Code
- additional community code