A Gold Standard Rajasthani Raw Text Corpus

11,99,502 Words | 74 Titles | XML format | 3 Domains | 27 Sub-categories

Rajasthani is a broad linguistic category that encompasses a variety of dialects, including Marwari, Mewari, Mewati, Dhundhari, Harauti, Bagri, Wagdi, and Malvi, spoken across different regions of Rajasthan. The Government of India classifies Rajasthani as a Western Indo-Aryan variant of Hindi, primarily spoken within the state. The Government of India established the Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages (LDC-IL) to support language development efforts. The LDC-IL Rajasthani Text Corpus is created based on key factors such as text quality, representativeness, retrievability, corpus size, and authenticity. For text collection, LDC-IL follows a standardized domain-based categorization and predefined criteria. The Rajasthani text corpus is broadly divided into literary and non-literary texts, with an emphasis on maintaining a balanced dataset. The collected data, sourced from books and magazines, undergoes verification for accuracy before being stored.

Rajasthani Text Corpus encoded in a machine-readable form and stored in a standard format. The major encoding being used is Unicode and stored in XML format. The data is embedded with metadata information. The corpus has been created from the contemporary text in typed and crawled methods.

A detailed explanation of the Rajasthani Raw Text Corpus will be available in the Rajasthani Text Corpus Documentation.  

For any research-based citations, please use the following citations:

1. Ankita Tiwari, Rajesha N., Manasa G., Dr. Narayan Kumar Choudhary, Prof. Shailendra Mohan. 2025. A Gold Standard Rajasthani Raw Text Corpus. Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore. ISBN: 978-93-48633-93-4.
2. Dr. Rejitha K. S., Dr. Narayan Kumar Choudhary. 2025. LDC-IL Corpus Insights. Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore. ISBN: 978-93-48633-33-0.