Bengali is the official language of West Bengal and Tripura. It belongs to the Indo-Aryan language family.

Bengali Text Corpus encoded in a machine readable form and stored in a standard format. The major encoding being used is Unicode and stored in XML format. The data is embedded with metadata information. The corpus has been created from contemporary text in typed method. LDC-IL Bengali Text Corpus details:

•          Total corpus size: 42,37,440 words
•          Total number of titles: 1460
•          Total number of characters: 2,54,81,407
•          Total number of domains :3 (Aesthetics, Science & Technology and Social Science)
•          Total number of sub-domains: 44 (Autobiographies, Novel, Short stories, Astronomy, Chemistry, Economics, History etc.)