The EMILLE Corpus

The EMILLE Corpus has been constructed as part of a collaborative venture between the EMILLE project (Enabling Minority Language Engineering), Lancaster University, UK, and the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Mysore, India. EMILLE is distributed by the European Language Resources Association. The corpus consists of three components: monolingual, parallel and annotated corpora. There are fourteen monolingual corpora, including both written and (for some languages) spoken data for fourteen South Asian languages: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sinhala, Tamil, Telegu and Urdu. The EMILLE monolingual corpora contain approximately 92,799,000 words (including 2,627,000 words of transcribed spoken data for Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu). The parallel corpus consists of 200,000 words of text in English and its accompanying translations in Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati and Urdu. The annotated component includes the Urdu monolingual and parallel corpora annotated for parts-of-speech, together with twenty written Hindi corpus files annotated to show the nature of demonstrative use. The corpus is marked up using CES-compliant SGML, and encoded using Unicode. The EMILLE/CIIL Corpus (ELRA-W0037) is distributed free of charge for use in non-profit-making research only