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Protham AloDataset ID:
cmnxhw57z008kny07uy0kj8a5
Release Date: 4/13/2026
Format: DOCX
Size: 42.36 MB
The Prothom Alo Bengali Newspaper Corpus is a large-scale text dataset containing over 10 million tokens from the archives of Prothom Alo, one of Bangladesh’s most widely read newspapers. It represents modern Bengali journalistic writing across domains such as national and international news, social issues, culture, and literary content.
Licensing
Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC-4.0)
https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-NC-4.0.htmlRestrictions/Special Constraints
This dataset is intended for research, educational, and non-commercial use only.
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This dataset is not for commercial purposes and is only for research and educational purposes.
Ethical Review
Data was ethically sourced from public journalistic archives for linguistic research purposes.
Intended Use
This dataset is intended for Natural Language Processing (NLP) of the Bengali language.
Bengali (বাংলা), also known as Bangla, is a classical Indo-Aryan language primarily spoken in the Bengal region of South Asia. With over 242 million native speakers as of 2025, it ranks as the sixth most spoken native language in the world. It is the official and national language of Bangladesh and an official language in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, and the Barak Valley of Assam. Bengali was officially accorded the status of a classical language in 2024, honoring its millennium-old literary tradition and rich history.
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