SUPara0.8M: A Balanced English-Bangla Parallel Corpus

This dataset contains 70,614 English-Bangla sentence pairs and more than 0.8 million tokens in each side. The dataset consists of texts from different genres like literature, journalistic texts, instructive texts, administrative texts, and texts treating external communication, which are collected from various printed and online media.The corpus can be used to train data-driven machine translation system between English and Bangla languages in both directions. This corpus can also be used to perform contrastive analysis of various features between English and Bangla languages.