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masakhanews

Domain:

natural language processing

Record type:

dataset
Creator:
mas
Host:
MasakhaNEWS is the largest publicly available dataset for news topic classification in 16 languages widely spoken in Africa. The train/validation/test sets are available for all the 16 languages. [More Information Needed] news topic classification: categorize news articles into new topics e.g business, sport sor politics. Languages

Visit

huggingface.co

Tasks

news classificationtext classificationtopic classification

Languages

AmharicGandaHausaIgboLingalaOromoPidgin, NigerianRundiShonaSomali+4

Tags

news-topicmasakhanewsmasakhane

Licenses

afl-3.0

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MasakhaNEWS

MasakhaNEWS

Poster presented at the Deep Learning Indaba 2023 by David Adelani

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MasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African languages

African languages are severely under-represented in NLP research due to lack of datasets covering several NLP tasks. While there are individual language specific datasets that are being expanded to different tasks, only a handful of NLP tasks (e.g. named entity rec