MDOLC: Multi Dialect Odia Song Lyric Corpus

This paper presents MDOLC, a multi-dialect Odia song lyric corpus. The corpus contains 230 Odia song lyrics in two different dialects (standard Odia or Odia and Sambalpuri). The lyrics are segmented into more than 8033 sentences (song verses) with 42,287 words. The corpus is available in annotated plain text (txt) format with metadata. We perform the dialect detection experiment on this corpus. Also, we performed a linguistic analysis of this corpus. The MDOLC is the first multi-dialect Odia song lyric corpus as per our best knowledge and will be freely available for researchers.