We created a novel dataset, ANTC — African News Topic Classification for 4 African languages. We obtained data from three different news sources: VOA, BBC6 and isolezwe7 . From the VOA data we created datasets for Lingala and Somali. We obtained the topics from dat
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
Can you create a classification algorithm to identify Swahili news articles by category? The dataset describes 6439 rows of news from different sources in Tanzania.These news are in 5 different news categories from national news to entertainment news.Yo
Can you create a classification algorithm to identify Swahili news articles by c
Classification of News Documents and transcripts from live news in English and isiXhosa using multin
Swahili is spoken by 100-150 million people across East Africa. In Tanzania, it is one of two national languages (the other is English) and it is the official language of instruction in all schools. News in Swahili is an important part of the media sphere in Tanzan