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Hausa VOA Topics

Domain:

natural language processing

Record type:

dataset
A collection of news article headlines in Hausa from VOA Hausa. Each headline is labeled with one of the following classes: Nigeria, Africa, World, Health or Politics. The dataset was presented in the paper: Hedderich, Adelani, Zhu, Alabi, Markus, Klakow: Transfer Learning and Distant Supervision for Multilingual Transformer Models: A Study on African Languages (EMNLP 2020).

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Tasks

topic classificationnews classificationtext classification

Languages

Hausa

Licenses

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