"Lao_news_plaintext"

Authors: Khonepaseuth SOUNAKHEN

IEEE DataPort
DOI: 10.21227/tfdj-gt36 - DOI (Computer Science)
Published on 10 Mar. 2026
License: CC BY
Abstract

"This document describes a clean plain text file derived from a Lao news website, intended for educational and research purposes in OCR (optical character recognition) and NLP (natural language processing). The file contains unformatted Lao language content extracted from web sources, demonstrating typical newsroom vocabulary, sentence structure, and typographic patterns found in Lao news reporting. It serves as a representative corpus for preprocessing, tokenization, language modeling, and performance benchmarking in OCR pipelines and NLP experiments, enabling researchers to evaluate character-level and word-level recognition, normalization, and downstream tasks such as named entity recognition, part-of-speech tagging, and sentiment analysis. By providing a standard, noise-free text source, this file supports reproducible experiments and methodological comparisons across tools and models."

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