V\=arta: A Large-Scale Headline-Generation Dataset for Indic Languages

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We present V\=arta, a large-scale multilingual dataset for headline generation in Indic languages.

• This dataset includes 41.8 million news articles in 14 different Indic languages (and English), which come from a variety of high-quality sources.
• To the best of our knowledge, this is the largest collection of curated articles for Indic languages currently available.
• We use the data collected in a series of experiments to answer important questions related to Indic NLP and multilinguality research in general.