About Us
Bangla (Bengali, বাংলা) is 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.