Overview of the INLI PAN at FIRE-2017 Track on Indian Native Language Identification

This overview paper describes the first shared task on Indian Native Language Identification (INLI) that was organized at FIRE 2017. Given a corpus with comments in English from various Facebook newspapers pages, the objective of the task is to identify the native language among the following six Indian languages: Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, and Telugu. Altogether, 26 approaches of 13 different teams are evaluated. In this paper, we give an overview of the approaches and discuss the results that they have obtained.

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