Khmer Language News Articles for OCR and NLP Research

A collection of Khmer-language news articles scraped from multiple online news websites for academic and research purposes related to Khmer OCR and natural language processing. It was created by Thareah and last updated in February 2026. The dataset consists of extracted textual content without images or structured metadata.

Use Cases

• Train or evaluate Khmer Optical Character Recognition (OCR) models on raw extracted text from news articles.
• Develop Khmer language models for natural language processing tasks using news article text.
• Analyze linguistic patterns and vocabulary in contemporary Khmer news text.
• Create text classification or topic modeling systems for Khmer news content.

Strengths

• Contains text specifically for Khmer OCR and NLP development, a lower-resource language.
• Data was collected from multiple online news websites, providing a variety of sources.
• Last updated in February 2026, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Specific source URLs for the articles were not systematically recorded, limiting source verification.
• Only textual content was extracted; no images, structured metadata, or author information is included.
• The dataset size, number of rows, and specific file formats are unknown.

Provenance

Source

Publicly accessible Khmer-language news websites.

Collection Method

Collected by automated scraping of online news articles.

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-02-17.

Geography

Cambodia (implied by Khmer language focus).