Yoruba Bbc News Topic Classification Dataset (YorubaBbcTopics)

A collection of news article headlines in Yoruba from BBC Yoruba. Each headline is labeled with one of the following classes: africa, entertainment, health, nigeria, politics, sport or world. 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).