ILID: Native Script Language Identification for Indian Languages

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11832v2
• Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 14:57:22 GMT
• Title: ILID: Native Script Language Identification for Indian Languages
• Authors: Yash Ingle, Pruthwik Mishra,
• Abstract summary: Core challenge of language identification lies in distinguishing languages in noisy, short, and code-mixed environments.<n>We release a dataset of 250K sentences consisting of 23 languages including English and all 22 official Indian languages labeled with their language identifiers.<n>Our models outperforms the state-of-the-art pre-trained transformer models for the language identification task.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: The language identification task is a crucial fundamental step in NLP. Often it serves as a pre-processing step for widely used NLP applications such as multilingual machine translation, information retrieval, question and answering, and text summarization. The core challenge of language identification lies in distinguishing languages in noisy, short, and code-mixed environments. This becomes even harder in case of diverse Indian languages that exhibit lexical and phonetic similarities, but have distinct differences. Many Indian languages share the same script, making the task even more challenging. Taking all these challenges into account, we develop and release a dataset of 250K sentences consisting of 23 languages including English and all 22 official Indian languages labeled with their language identifiers, where data in most languages are newly created. We also develop and release baseline models using state-of-the-art approaches in machine learning and fine-tuning pre-trained transformer models. Our models outperforms the state-of-the-art pre-trained transformer models for the language identification task. The dataset and the codes are available at https://yashingle-ai.github.io/ILID/ and in Huggingface open source libraries.

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