  Shallow parsing is an essential task for many NLP applications like machine
translation, summarization, sentiment analysis, aspect identification and many
more. Quality annotated corpora is critical for building accurate shallow
parsers. Many Indian languages are resource poor with respect to the
availability of corpora in general. So, this paper is an attempt towards
creating quality corpora for shallow parsers. The contribution of this paper is
two folds: creation pos and chunk annotated corpora for Odia and development of
baseline systems for pos tagging and chunking in Odia.
