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BHAVA (Behavioral and Affective Vernaculars): A Multilingual Dataset of Everyday Expressions of Distress Across Indian Languages

Akshyat Shah ⋅ Anamta Khan ⋅ Niva Manchanda ⋅ Akshata Kishore Moharir ⋅ Ratna Kandala

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Abstract

We introduce BHAVA, a multilingual dataset of approximately 3,000 native-speaker-authored sentences containing everyday expressions of distress across seven Indian languages: Hindi, Urdu, Marathi, Punjabi (Indo-Aryan); Kannada, Tulu, and Telugu (Dravidian).

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