Datasets:
Tasks:
Text Classification
Modalities:
Text
Formats:
parquet
Sub-tasks:
topic-classification
Languages:
Hausa
Size:
1K - 10K
License:
| annotations_creators: | |
| - expert-generated | |
| language_creators: | |
| - found | |
| language: | |
| - ha | |
| license: | |
| - unknown | |
| multilinguality: | |
| - monolingual | |
| size_categories: | |
| - 1K<n<10K | |
| source_datasets: | |
| - original | |
| task_categories: | |
| - text-classification | |
| task_ids: | |
| - topic-classification | |
| paperswithcode_id: null | |
| pretty_name: Hausa Voa News Topic Classification Dataset (HausaVoaTopics) | |
| # Dataset Card for Hausa VOA News Topic Classification dataset (hausa_voa_topics) | |
| ## 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:** - | |
| - **Repository:** https://github.com/uds-lsv/transfer-distant-transformer-african | |
| - **Paper:** https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.emnlp-main.204/ | |
| - **Leaderboard:** - | |
| - **Point of Contact:** Michael A. Hedderich and David Adelani | |
| {mhedderich, didelani} (at) lsv.uni-saarland.de | |
| ### Dataset Summary | |
| A news headline topic classification dataset, similar to AG-news, for Hausa. The news headlines were collected from [VOA Hausa](https://www.voahausa.com/). | |
| ### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards | |
| [More Information Needed] | |
| ### Languages | |
| Hausa (ISO 639-1: ha) | |
| ## Dataset Structure | |
| ### Data Instances | |
| An instance consists of a news title sentence and the corresponding topic label. | |
| ### Data Fields | |
| - `news_title`: A news title | |
| - `label`: The label describing the topic of the news title. Can be one of the following classes: Nigeria, Africa, World, Health or Politics. | |
| ### Data Splits | |
| [More Information Needed] | |
| ## 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] | |
| ## Considerations for Using the Data | |
| ### Social Impact of Dataset | |
| [More Information Needed] | |
| ### Discussion of Biases | |
| [More Information Needed] | |
| ### Other Known Limitations | |
| [More Information Needed] | |
| ## Additional Information | |
| ### Dataset Curators | |
| [More Information Needed] | |
| ### Licensing Information | |
| [More Information Needed] | |
| ### Citation Information | |
| [More Information Needed] | |
| ### Contributions | |
| Thanks to [@michael-aloys](https://github.com/michael-aloys) for adding this dataset. | |