  We present Multilingual Open Text (MOT), a new multilingual corpus containing
text in 44 languages, many of which have limited existing text resources for
natural language processing. The first release of the corpus contains over 2.8
million news articles and an additional 1 million short snippets (photo
captions, video descriptions, etc.) published between 2001--2022 and collected
from Voice of America's news websites. We describe our process for collecting,
filtering, and processing the data. The source material is in the public
domain, our collection is licensed using a creative commons license (CC BY
4.0), and all software used to create the corpus is released under the MIT
License. The corpus will be regularly updated as additional documents are
published.
