AI RESEARCH
PashtoCorp: A 1.25-Billion-Word Corpus, Evaluation Suite, and Reproducible Pipeline for Low-Resource Language Development
arXiv CS.LG
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ArXi:2603.16354v1 Announce Type: cross We present PashtoCorp, a 1.25-billion-word corpus for Pashto, a language spoken by 60M people that remains severely underrepresented in NLP. The corpus is assembled from 39 sources spanning seven HuggingFace datasets and 32 purpose-built web scrapers, processed through a reproducible pipeline with Arabic-script tokenization, SHA-256 deduplication, and quality filtering. At 1.25B words across 2.81M documents, PashtoCorp is 40x larger than the OSCAR Pashto subset and 83x larger than the previously largest dedicated Pashto corpus. Continued MLM pre.