A Gentle Introduction To MuRIL : Multilingual Representations for Indian Languages
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“MuRIL is a starting point of what we believe can be the next big evolution for Indian language understanding. We hope it will prove to be a better foundation for researchers, startups, students, and anyone else interested in building Indian language technologies” said Partha Talukdar, Research Scientist, Google Research India.
What is MuRIL?
MuRIL, short for Multilingual Representations for Indian Languages, is none other than a free and open-source Machine learning tool specifically designed for Indian languages. Google’s Indian Research Unit has launched it in the year 2020. It helps to build local technologies in vernacular languages with a common framework.
What are all the languages it supports?
MuRIL currently supports the following 17 languages:
- Assamese
- Bengali
- English
- Gujarati
- Hindi
- Kannada
- Kashmiri
- Malayalam
- Marathi
- Nepali
- Oriya
- Punjabi
- Sanskrit
- Sindhi
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Urdu
Why MuRIL?
- The major objective was to make the internet convenient for regional languages in India and to