Row-aligned corpus links all 22 Indian languages via pivots

BharatSetu provides nearly 1 million English sentences machine-translated into every scheduled Indic language, enabling 462 direct language pairs without native bitext.

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Haq Nawaz Malik · Nahfid Nissar · Faizan Iqbal
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Malik et al.

The authors built a table of 984,764 English source rows, each paired with machine translations in all 22 Eighth Schedule languages (Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu).

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BharatSetu provides a single table of 1 million English sentences machine-translated into all 22 scheduled Indian languages, enabling any pair of these languages to be translated via English.

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