The Best Hindi Language Datasets of 2022

Hindi is one of the most commonly spoken languages in the world. That being said, it’s not always easy to find Hindi language datasets to train your models. 

That’s why we’ve done the hard bit for you. We’ve searched high and low here at Twine to find the best Hindi Language datasets.

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Here are our top picks for Hindi Language datasets:

CC100-Hindi Romanized Dataset

Created in 2020, the CC100-Hindi Romanized dataset is one of the 100 corpora of monolingual data that was processed from the January-December 2018 Commoncrawl snapshots from the CC-Net repository. The size of this corpus is 129M, in Hindi Romanized language. Contains Text files.

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Aesthetics Text Corpus Dataset

Created in 2019, the Aesthetics Text Corpus Dataset consists of novels and short stories written in Hindi. The data was dedicated to the famous novelist Premchand and their stories, and Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute’s Digital Library. As a preprocessing step, the text was split into sentences, and special characters, English tokens, and Latin numbers were in Hindi. Contains 978 Text files.

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WAT 2019 Hindi-English Dataset

Created in 2019, the WAT 2019 Hindi-English Dataset consists of multimodal English-to-Hindi translation. It inputs an image, a rectangular region in the image, and English captioning. It outputs a caption in Hindi. Contains 32,925 in Text, JPEG file format.

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IIT Bombay English-Hindi Corpus Dataset

Created in 2018, the IIT Bombay English-Hindi Corpus Dataset contains parallel corpus for English-Hindi as well as monolingual Hindi corpus collected from a variety of existing sources. Exclusively in Hindi and English. Contains 1.49M files.

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bAbI 20 Tasks Dataset

Created in 2015, the bAbI 20 Tasks Dataset contains a set of contexts, with multiple question-answer pairs available based on the contexts. Exclusively in Hindi. Contains Text files.

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Wrapping up

To conclude, here are top picks for the best Hindi language datasets for your projects:

1. CC100-Hindi Romanized Dataset
2. Aesthetics Text Corpus Dataset
3. WAT 2019 Hindi-English Dataset
4. IIT Bombay English-Hindi Corpus Dataset
5. bAbI 20 Tasks Dataset

We hope that this list has either helped you find a dataset for your project or, realize the myriad of options available. 

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