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},
}