## 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},
}
```

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IndicNLP News Article Classification Dataset
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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: Bengali, Classes: entertainment, sports, Articles per Class: 7K
Language: Gujarati, Classes: business, entertainment, sports, Articles per Class: 680
Language: Kannada, Classes: entertainment, lifestyle, sports, Articles per Class: 10K
Language: Malayalam, Classes: business, entertainment, sports, technology, Articles per Class: 1.5K
Language: Marathi, Classes: entertainment, lifestyle, sports, Articles per Class: 1.5K
Language: Oriya, Classes: business, crime, entertainment, sports, Articles per Class: 7.5K
Language: Punjabi, Classes: business, entertainment, sports, politics, Articles per Class: 780
Language: Tamil, Classes: entertainment, politics, sport, Articles per Class: 3.9K
Language: Telugu, Classes: entertainment, business, sports, Articles per Class: 8K


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



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