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MasakhaNER

Domain:

natural language processing

Record type:

dataset
Creator:
Bla
Host:
MasakhaNER is the first large publicly available high-quality dataset for named entity recognition (NER) in ten African languages. Named entities are phrases that contain the names of persons, organizations, locations, times and quantities. Example: [PER Wolff] , currently a journalist in [LOC Argentina] , played with [PER Del Bosque] in the final years of the seventies in [ORG Real Madrid] . MasakhaNER is a named entity dataset consisting of PER, ORG, LOC, and DATE entities annotated by Masakhane for ten African languages: - Amharic - Hausa - Igbo - Kinyarwanda - Luganda - Luo - Nigerian-Pidgin - Swahili - Wolof - Yoruba The train/validation/test sets are available for all the ten languages. For more details see MasakhaNER: Named Entity Re…

Visit

huggingface.co

Tasks

information extractionnamed entity recognition

Languages

AmharicDholuoGandaHausaIgboKinyarwandaPidgin, NigerianSwahiliWolofYoruba

Licenses

unknown

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Masakhaner

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MasakhaNER-X

MasakhaNER-X is an aggregation of MasakhaNER 1.0 and MasakhaNER 2.0 datasets for 20 African language

Masakhaner 2.0

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COS301-SE-2021/MasakhaNER

A web-based interface that will be used as a named entity recognition tool for African languages. Us

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We take a step towards addressing the under-representation of the African continent in NLP research