Bangla IIT Kanpur

Bangla (Bengali, বাংলা) is the fifth most spoken language globally. It is the state language of several states in India, including West Bengal and Tripura, besides being one of the official languages of India. Further, it is the primary language for Bangladesh. Recently, there have been proposals to adopt Bangla as one of the official languages in the UN. Yet, the state-of-the-art NLP in Bangla is lagging for even simple tasks such as lemmatization, POS tagging, etc. We, at IIT Kanpur, are working towards developing better NLP algorithms, models and tools for Bangla.