FeniVerse: A parallel corpus of Feni dialect, standard Bengali, and English.

ABSTRACT: FeniVerse is a trilingual parallel corpus comprising 4094 entries in English, Standard Bangla, and the Feni Dialect, totaling 12,282 sentence-aligned translations. It addresses the scarcity of datasets and tools for Bangla dialects, particularly the underrepresented Feni Dialect, spoken by approximately 1.6 million people in southeastern Bangladesh. As the first dataset for this dialect, FeniVerse is a valuable resource for computational linguistics. The corpus is manually curated, with each entry cross-checked by native Feni speakers and regional volunteers to ensure accuracy while preserving phonological, lexical, and syntactic variations. FeniVerse is openly accessible and designed for seamless integration into NLP (Natural Language Processing) pipelines. Existing AI and NLP models stru

SUBMITTER: Mahi MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12666053 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature