---
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: headline
    dtype: string
  - name: label
    dtype: string
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 1241016
    num_examples: 6460
  download_size: 531064
  dataset_size: 1241016
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
task_categories:
- text-classification
language:
- kn
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
---

# Dataset Card for kannada_news dataset 

## Table of Contents
- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
  - [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
  - [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
  - [Languages](#languages)
- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
  - [Data Instances](#data-instances)
  - [Data Fields](#data-fields)
  - [Data Splits](#data-splits)
- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
  - [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)
  - [Source Data](#source-data)
  - [Annotations](#annotations)
  - [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)
- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)
  - [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset)
  - [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases)
  - [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
  - [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators)
  - [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
  - [Citation Information](#citation-information)
  - [Contributions](#contributions)

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** [Kaggle link](https://www.kaggle.com/disisbig/kannada-news-dataset) for kannada news headlines dataset
- **Repository:**
- **Paper:**
- **Leaderboard:**
- **Point of Contact:** More information about the dataset and the models can be found [here](https://github.com/goru001/nlp-for-kannada)

### Dataset Summary

The Kannada news dataset contains only the headlines of news article in three categories:
Entertainment, Tech, and Sports.

The data set contains around 6300 news article headlines which are collected from Kannada news websites.
The data set has been cleaned and contains train and test set using which can be used to benchmark topic classification models in Kannada.

### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

[More Information Needed]

### Languages

Kannada (kn)

## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

An example row of the dataset is as below:

```
{
  'headline': 'ಫಿಫಾ ವಿಶ್ವಕಪ್ ಫೈನಲ್: ಅತಿರೇಕಕ್ಕೇರಿದ ಸಂಭ್ರಮಾಚರಣೆ; ಅಭಿಮಾನಿಗಳ ಹುಚ್ಚು ವರ್ತನೆಗೆ ವ್ಯಾಪಕ ಖಂಡನೆ',
  'label':'sports'
}
```
NOTE: The data has very few examples on the technology (class label: 'tech') topic. [More Information Needed]

### Data Fields

Data has two fields:
- headline: text headline in kannada (string)
- label : corresponding class label which the headlines pertains to in english (string)

### Data Splits

The dataset has 6460 rows in the train.csv.

## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

[More Information Needed]

### Source Data

#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

[More Information Needed]

#### Who are the source language producers?

[More Information Needed]

### Annotations

#### Annotation process

[More Information Needed]

#### Who are the annotators?

[More Information Needed]

### Personal and Sensitive Information

[More Information Needed]

I have copied this dataset and republished it as the dataset card was not visible. Thanks to [@vrindaprabhu](https://github.com/vrindaprabhu) for adding this dataset initially.