📚 The Kashmiri NLP Resource Hub

Everything built for the Kashmiri language, in one place

Kashmiri research is scattered across arXiv, HuggingFace, government portals and university PDFs — which makes it hard to know what already exists, and easy to rebuild something twice. This is a single, tracked catalogue of 205 datasets, papers, models, tools and the groups behind them, spanning 1932–2026.

Three hand-painted Kashmiri papier-mâché boxes with flowers and birds
Kashmir papier-mâché trinket boxes, painted by hand.Catlemur, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
205
Resources
tracked & verified
84
Datasets
corpora & benchmarks
36
Papers
published research
60
Models
pretrained & fine-tuned
17
Tools
software & platforms
101
Since 2025
the field is accelerating
Researcher portalsMeet the researchers building Kashmiri AIHaq Nawaz Malik · AI4Bharat · COIL-D / CorIL team · Gaash Lab · Tawseef Ahmad Mir & Aadil Ahmad Lawaye and more9 portals →

Where the effort is going

Resource count by task. The long tail is the interesting part — it shows which problems in Kashmiri NLP are still essentially untouched.

Pages by task:Machine Translation · Corpus · LLM · Speech Recognition · Speech Synthesis · Benchmark · OCR · Lexical Resource · Text Classification

24 of 205 resources · Benchmark
dataset
2026

BhartiOCR

Faizan Iqbal · HuggingFace

Synthetic OCR and document benchmark: 13.25M image–text pairs across 23 South Asian languages and 12 writing systems, as WebDataset shards. Includes Kashmiri.

Synthetic23 LanguagesGated
Apache-2.0
dataset
2026

COILD Benchmark v1

COILD, IIT Patna · HuggingFace

Indic-to-Indic MT test set: 40 directions, 21 languages, 2,000 sentence pairs per direction, translated directly between Indian languages. Includes Hindi–Kashmiri.

Indic-IndicTest SetHindi–Kashmiri
dataset
2026

COILD-MT Corpus — Hindi↔Kashmiri

COILD, IIT Patna · HuggingFace

Indic-centric parallel corpus and benchmark from the COILD project, with a Hindi–Kashmiri section and test files. Non-commercial research use; access needs the COILD request form plus the Hugging Face request.

Parallel CorpusIndic-IndicHindi–Kashmiri
CC-BY-NC-4.0
paper
2026

COILD: An Indic-Centric Parallel Corpus and Benchmark for Machine Translation Across Indian Languages

Kshetrimayum Boynao Singh, Nitin Kumar Mishra, Palash Pratim Dutta et al. · arXiv

Paper describing COILD: over 1.16 million human-translated and human-verified sentence pairs across 20 Indian language pairs and eight domains, translated directly between Indian languages, including Hindi–Kashmiri.

Parallel CorpusIndic-IndicHindi–Kashmiri
dataset
2026

Indic DiarBench

Sarvam AI · HuggingFace

Joint diarization and ASR benchmark: about 108 hours of natural multi-speaker conversation across the 22 scheduled languages, with human-corrected, speaker-attributed transcripts. Includes Kashmiri.

DiarizationConversational22 Languages
CC-BY-4.0
dataset
2026

KATHE 2026 — English→Kashmiri Translation Challenge Data

Gaash Lab, NIT Srinagar · Kaggle

Data for KATHE 2026, the national English→Kashmiri machine translation challenge on Kaggle organised by Gaash Lab, NIT Srinagar, with the Bureau of Indian Standards and the University of Kashmir. The test set is 1,730 short everyday English sentences with hidden Kashmiri references, scored by the geometric mean of BLEU and chrF++; 38 teams took part. The finale was held at NIT Srinagar on 21 August 2026.

Shared TaskEnglish→Kashmiri
dataset
2026

Sarvam Indic OCR Bench

Sarvam AI · HuggingFace

OCR benchmark of 6,909 curated text blocks from real document pages (19th century to present: textbooks, newspapers, magazines) in the 22 scheduled languages plus English, including Kashmiri.

Real Documents23 Languages
Apache-2.0
paper
2025

Dataset Creation & Benchmarking for Kashmiri News Snippet Classification

Various · Scientific Reports (Nature) · PMC12630696

First manually labeled corpus of 15,036 Kashmiri news snippets across 10 domains. Benchmarks ParsBERT (F1=0.98), IndicBERTv2+GRU, BLOOM-560m, and Flan-T5 in zero-shot settings.

Text Classification15K SnippetsParsBERT
Featured
paper
2025

Deep Neural Architectures for Kashmiri-English Machine Translation

Qamar, S.M.U., Azim, M., Quadri, S.M.K., et al. · Scientific Reports (Nature)

Introduces the first comprehensive NMT benchmark for Kashmiri with a 270K parallel corpus. Compares Encoder-Decoder, Attention-Enhanced, and Transformer architectures. Achieves BLEU-4 of 0.2965.

NMT270K CorpusTransformer
Featured
dataset
2025

ChiKhaPo — Lexical Benchmark

ChiKhaPo authors · HuggingFace

Benchmark of four word-level comprehension and generation tasks for LLMs across 2,700+ languages, built on PanLex, GATITOS and IDS lexicons. Includes English–Kashmiri pairs.

Word TranslationLLM Evaluation2,700+ Languages
MIT
paper
2025

CorIL: Enriching Indian Language to Indian Language Parallel Corpora and MT Systems

Soham Bhattacharjee, Mukund K Roy, Yathish Poojary, Bhargav Dave, Mihir Raj, et al. · arXiv:2509.19941

Builds Indic-to-Indic parallel corpora and translation systems across Indian languages including Kashmiri. Notes that Kashmiri and Sindhi consistently yield the lowest scores even within the Indic family, quantifying how far behind the low-resource tail sits.

Indic-IndicParallel Corpus
arXiv
dataset
2025

ILID — Indian Language Identification

Yash Ingle et al. · HuggingFace

250,000 sentences in English and the 22 scheduled Indian languages (10,000 Kashmiri) for training and evaluating native-script language identification.

Language Identification23 Languages
MIT
dataset
2025

MVL-SIB

WüNLP · HuggingFace

Vision-language extension of SIB-200: image–sentence pairs across 205 languages and 7 topics for testing cross-modal topic matching.

Vision-LanguageTopic Classification205 Languages
CC-BY-SA-4.0
dataset
2025

SMOL — SmolSent (Kashmiri)

Google · Google

Google's small professionally translated parallel set covering many low-resource languages; the Kashmiri part has 863 sentences. Independent of the other public Kashmiri corpora.

Parallel CorpusEvaluation Set
CC-BY-4.0
dataset
2024

Kashmiri-English Dataset 270K

SMUQamar · HuggingFace

Largest open Kashmiri-English parallel corpus with ~270,000 sentence pairs built from digitized literary texts, manually authored dialogues, and filtered legacy data. Foundation of the first NMT benchmark for Kashmiri.

Parallel Corpus270K PairsNMT Benchmark
CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
Featured
dataset
2024

FLORES+

Open Language Data Initiative · HuggingFace

Actively maintained successor to FLORES-200, now managed by OLDI: an MT evaluation benchmark of translations from English into 200+ language varieties, including Kashmiri in Perso-Arabic and Devanagari script.

Evaluation200+ Languageskas_Arab
CC-BY-SA-4.0
dataset
2024

SIB-200 — Topic Classification (Kashmiri)

Adelani et al. · HuggingFace

Topic-classification benchmark for 200+ languages built on FLORES-200 sentences, with Kashmiri in both Perso-Arabic and Devanagari script (1,004 sentences each: 701 train, 99 dev, 204 test).

Topic ClassificationDevanagariEvaluation Set
CC-BY-SA-4.0
dataset
2023

IN22 Benchmark (IndicTrans2)

AI4Bharat · GitHub

India-specific multi-domain evaluation benchmark (IN22-Gen + IN22-Conv) for 22 scheduled Indian languages. The standard for evaluating Indian MT models.

BenchmarkIndian LanguagesMulti-Domain
CC-BY-4.0
dataset
2022

FLORES-200 Benchmark

Meta AI (FAIR) · GitHub

Multilingual MT evaluation benchmark covering 200+ languages including Kashmiri. Human-translated sentences from Wikipedia for standardized evaluation.

Benchmark200+ LanguagesEvaluation
CC-BY-SA-4.0
tool

Kashmir AI Research — Evaluation Platform

Faizan Ayoub · Kashmir AI Research

Blinded human evaluation of Kashmiri MT: native speakers score translations (adequacy, fluency, preference) and mark error spans. The current study runs at kashmirairesearch.online/consent.

EvaluationHuman-in-the-LoopError annotation
Featured
dataset

Kashmir AI Research Parallel Corpus

Kashmir AI Research · Kashmir AI Research

A 124,102-pair Kashmiri–English training corpus aggregated from AI4Bharat BPCC and the SMUQamar corpus, deduplicated and filtered on length and script. The sentence pairs are the work of their original authors; the aggregation, filtering and split are ours. Not redistributed.

Parallel CorpusAggregatedFiltered
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model

IndicBERTv2 (ai4bharat)

AI4Bharat · HuggingFace

Multilingual BERT model pretrained on Indian languages including Kashmiri. Used as embedding backbone in news classification benchmarks (F1=0.98 with GRU).

BERTEmbeddingsIndian Languages
dataset

IndicNLP Catalog (incl. NLLB-Seed)

AI4Bharat · GitHub

Comprehensive catalog of NLP resources for Indian languages including Kashmiri. Tracks datasets like NLLB-Seed parallel data and connects to FLORES-200 benchmarks.

Indic NLPNLLBCatalog
tool

sacreBLEU — MT Evaluation Toolkit

Open Source · GitHub

Standardized MT evaluation toolkit used in all Kashmiri NMT papers. Recommended for reproducible BLEU, ChrF++, and TER scoring on Kashmiri translation output.

EvaluationBLEUChrF++

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