Natural Language Toolkit for Indian Languages (iNLTK)
Project description
Natural Language Toolkit for Indic Languages (iNLTK)
iNLTK aims to provide out of the box support for various NLP tasks that an application developer might need for Indic languages.
Documentation
Checkout detailed docs at https://inltk.readthedocs.io
Supported languages
| Language | Code |
|---|---|
| Hindi | hi |
| Punjabi | pa |
| Sanskrit | sa |
| Gujarati | gu |
| Kannada | kn |
| Malayalam | ml |
| Nepali | ne |
| Odia | or |
| Marathi | mr |
| Bengali | bn |
| Tamil | ta |
| Urdu | ur |
Repositories containing models used in iNLTK
| Language | Repository | Perplexity of Language model | Wikipedia Articles Dataset | Classification accuracy | Classification Kappa score | Embeddings visualization on Embedding projector |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hindi | NLP for Hindi | ~36 | 55,000 articles | ~79 (News Classification) | ~30 (Movie Review Classification) | Hindi Embeddings projection |
| Punjabi | NLP for Punjabi | ~13 | 44,000 articles | ~89 (News Classification) | ~60 (News Classification) | Punjabi Embeddings projection |
| Sanskrit | NLP for Sanskrit | ~6 | 22,273 articles | ~70 (Shloka Classification) | ~56 (Shloka Classification) | Sanskrit Embeddings projection |
| Gujarati | NLP for Gujarati | ~34 | 31,913 articles | ~91 (News Classification) | ~85 (News Classification) | Gujarati Embeddings projection |
| Kannada | NLP for Kannada | ~70 | 32,997 articles | ~94 (News Classification) | ~90 (News Classification) | Kannada Embeddings projection |
| Malayalam | NLP for Malayalam | ~26 | 12,388 articles | ~94 (News Classification) | ~91 (News Classification) | Malayalam Embeddings projection |
| Nepali | NLP for Nepali | ~32 | 38,757 articles | ~97 (News Classification) | ~96 (News Classification) | Nepali Embeddings projection |
| Odia | NLP for Odia | ~27 | 17,781 articles | ~95 (News Classification) | ~92 (News Classification) | Odia Embeddings Projection |
| Marathi | NLP for Marathi | ~18 | 85,537 articles | ~91 (News Classification) | ~84 (News Classification) | Marathi Embeddings projection |
| Bengali | NLP for Bengali | ~41 | 72,374 articles | ~94 (News Classification) | ~92 (News Classification) | Bengali Embeddings projection |
| Tamil | NLP for Tamil | ~20 | >127,000 articles | ~97 (News Classification) | ~95 (News Classification) | Tamil Embeddings projection |
| Urdu | NLP for Urdu | ~13 | >150,000 articles | ~94 (News Classification) | ~90 (News Classification) | Urdu Embeddings projection |
Contributing
Add a new language support
If you would like to add support for language of your own choice to iNLTK, please start with checking/raising a issue here
Please checkout the steps I'd mentioned here for Telugu to begin with. They should be almost similar for other languages as well.
Improving models/using models for your own research
If you would like to take iNLTK's models and refine them with your own dataset or build your own custom models on top of it, please check out the repositories in the above table for the language of your choice. The repositories above contain links to datasets, pretrained models, classifiers and all of the code for that.
Add new functionality
If you wish for a particular functionality in iNLTK - Start by checking/raising a issue here
What's next
..and being worked upon
Shout out if you want to help :)
..and NOT being worked upon
Shout out if you want to lead :)
- Work on a unified model for all the languages
- POS support in iNLTK
- Add translations - to and from languages in iNLTK + English
iNLTK's Appreciation
- By Jeremy Howard on Twitter
- By Vincent Boucher on LinkedIn
- By Kanimozhi, By Soham, By Imaad on LinkedIn
- iNLTK was trending on GitHub in May 2019
- iNLTK has had 20,000+ Downloads on PyPi
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