rajeshradhakrishnan/malayalam_news

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},
}