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<h3 align="center">भारतीय भाषा संस्थान</h3>
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  <strong>Department of Higher Education · Ministry of Education · Government of India</strong><br />
  Mysuru, India · Established 1969
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  <a href="https://www.ciil.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CIIL website</a> &nbsp;·&nbsp;
  <a href="https://huggingface.co/CIIL/models">Models</a> &nbsp;·&nbsp;
  <a href="https://data.ldcil.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Datasets</a>
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<p><strong>Welcome to CIIL’s official home on Hugging Face, where India’s many languages help shape what AI can become.</strong></p>
<p><strong>India’s languages, Shared knowledge, and an inclusive AI future.</strong></p>
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<p>For more than five decades, the <strong>Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL)</strong> has advanced language research, education and preservation. This Hub extends that work into collaborative AI research, with a focus on models, datasets and resources that help people learn, create and participate through their own languages.</p>
<h2>Linguistic knowledge as a foundation for AI</h2>
<p>Our work connects linguistic research with practical resources:</p>
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<li><strong>Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages (LDC-IL):</strong><br />
Text, speech and lexical resources, including annotated corpora and benchmarks, for Indian language research and technology.</li>
<li><strong>National Translation Mission (NTM):</strong><br />
Knowledge translation across the 22 Scheduled languages, supported by glossaries, terminology resources and translator training.</li>
<li><strong>Bharatavani:</strong><br />
Dictionaries, educational content and multilingual knowledge in a digital repository spanning more than 100 languages and dialects.</li>
<li><strong>Scheme for Protection and Preservation of Endangered Languages (SPPEL):</strong><br />
Documentation and revitalization of endangered languages through oral traditions, grammars and vocabularies.</li>
<li><strong>National Testing Service–India (NTS-I):</strong><br />
Research, assessment frameworks and educator training to strengthen language teaching, learning and evaluation.</li>
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<h2>Research directions on the Hub</h2>
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<li><strong>Speech:</strong><br />
Recognition, synthesis and language identification across accents, regional varieties and multilingual speech.</li>
<li><strong>Translation:</strong><br />
Resources that help knowledge move between Indian languages and widen access to education and services.</li>
<li><strong>NLP and generative AI:</strong><br />
Models and datasets attentive to linguistic structure, cultural context and code-mixing.</li>
<li><strong>Scripts and documents:</strong><br />
OCR, transliteration and document understanding to make written knowledge searchable and usable.</li>
<li><strong>Data and evaluation:</strong><br />
Curated resources and transparent benchmarks that reveal performance across languages, domains and speaker communities.</li>
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<p>These are our research directions. Each repository explains what is available.</p>
<h2>A digital future with room for every language</h2>
<p>A language can hold centuries of knowledge yet remain scarcely represented in AI. We prioritize low-resource, tribal and endangered languages alongside India’s Scheduled languages and wider diversity of mother tongues.</p>
<p>Speakers, educators and linguists help guide resources that reflect how people communicate, so more communities can access learning, research and digital services.</p>
<h2>Collaborate with care</h2>
<p>We welcome researchers, developers, educators and language communities. Explore the resources, share findings and contribute, with care for consent, attribution, cultural context and data provenance.</p>
<p>Check each repository for language coverage, intended uses, evaluation, limitations and licensing.</p>
<p><strong>Help shape an AI future in which people can learn, create and participate through their own languages.</strong></p>
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  <a href="https://www.ciil.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CIIL</a> &nbsp;·&nbsp;
  <a href="https://www.ldcil.org/">LDC-IL</a> &nbsp;·&nbsp;
  <a href="https://www.ciil-ntsindia.net/">NTS-I</a> &nbsp;·&nbsp;
  <a href="https://bharatavani.in/">Bharatavani</a> &nbsp;·&nbsp;
  <a href="https://sppel.org/">SPPEL</a>
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