Datasets:
Tasks:
Text Classification
Modalities:
Text
Formats:
parquet
Sub-tasks:
topic-classification
Languages:
Hausa
Size:
1K - 10K
License:
metadata
annotations_creators:
- expert-generated
language_creators:
- found
languages:
- ha
licenses:
- unknown
multilinguality:
- monolingual
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- text-classification
task_ids:
- topic-classification
Dataset Card for Hausa VOA News Topic Classification dataset (hausa_voa_topics)
Table of Contents
- Dataset Description
- Dataset Structure
- Dataset Creation
- Considerations for Using the Data
- Additional Information
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.
Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
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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 titlelabel
: The label describing the topic of the news title. Can be one of the following classes: Nigeria, Africa, World, Health or Politics.
Data Splits
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Dataset Creation
Curation Rationale
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Source Data
Initial Data Collection and Normalization
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Who are the source language producers?
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Annotations
Annotation process
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Who are the annotators?
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Personal and Sensitive Information
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Considerations for Using the Data
Social Impact of Dataset
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Discussion of Biases
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Other Known Limitations
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Additional Information
Dataset Curators
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Licensing Information
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Citation Information
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Contributions
Thanks to @michael-aloys for adding this dataset.