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annotations_creators: |
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- expert-generated |
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language_creators: |
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- found |
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language: |
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- ha |
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license: |
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- unknown |
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multilinguality: |
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- monolingual |
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size_categories: |
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- 1K<n<10K |
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source_datasets: |
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- original |
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task_categories: |
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- text-classification |
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task_ids: |
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- topic-classification |
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pretty_name: Hausa Voa News Topic Classification Dataset (HausaVoaTopics) |
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dataset_info: |
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features: |
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- name: news_title |
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dtype: string |
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- name: label |
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dtype: |
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class_label: |
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names: |
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'0': Africa |
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'1': Health |
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'2': Nigeria |
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'3': Politics |
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'4': World |
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- name: train |
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num_bytes: 144932 |
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num_examples: 2045 |
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- name: validation |
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num_bytes: 20565 |
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num_examples: 290 |
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- name: test |
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num_bytes: 41195 |
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num_examples: 582 |
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download_size: 195824 |
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dataset_size: 206692 |
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# Dataset Card for Hausa VOA News Topic Classification dataset (hausa_voa_topics) |
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## Table of Contents |
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- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description) |
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- [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary) |
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- [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards) |
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- [Languages](#languages) |
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- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure) |
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- [Data Instances](#data-instances) |
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- [Data Fields](#data-fields) |
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- [Data Splits](#data-splits) |
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- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation) |
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- [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale) |
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- [Source Data](#source-data) |
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- [Annotations](#annotations) |
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- [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information) |
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- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data) |
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- [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset) |
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- [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases) |
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- [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations) |
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- [Additional Information](#additional-information) |
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- [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators) |
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- [Licensing Information](#licensing-information) |
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- [Citation Information](#citation-information) |
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- [Contributions](#contributions) |
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## Dataset Description |
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- **Homepage:** - |
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- **Repository:** https://github.com/uds-lsv/transfer-distant-transformer-african |
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- **Paper:** https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.emnlp-main.204/ |
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- **Leaderboard:** - |
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- **Point of Contact:** Michael A. Hedderich and David Adelani |
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{mhedderich, didelani} (at) lsv.uni-saarland.de |
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### Dataset Summary |
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A news headline topic classification dataset, similar to AG-news, for Hausa. The news headlines were collected from [VOA Hausa](https://www.voahausa.com/). |
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### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards |
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[More Information Needed] |
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### Languages |
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Hausa (ISO 639-1: ha) |
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## Dataset Structure |
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### Data Instances |
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An instance consists of a news title sentence and the corresponding topic label. |
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### Data Fields |
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- `news_title`: A news title |
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- `label`: The label describing the topic of the news title. Can be one of the following classes: Nigeria, Africa, World, Health or Politics. |
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### Data Splits |
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[More Information Needed] |
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## Dataset Creation |
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### Curation Rationale |
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[More Information Needed] |
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### Source Data |
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#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization |
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[More Information Needed] |
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#### Who are the source language producers? |
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[More Information Needed] |
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### Annotations |
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#### Annotation process |
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[More Information Needed] |
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#### Who are the annotators? |
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[More Information Needed] |
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### Personal and Sensitive Information |
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[More Information Needed] |
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## Considerations for Using the Data |
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### Social Impact of Dataset |
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[More Information Needed] |
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### Discussion of Biases |
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[More Information Needed] |
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### Other Known Limitations |
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[More Information Needed] |
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## Additional Information |
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### Dataset Curators |
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[More Information Needed] |
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### Licensing Information |
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[More Information Needed] |
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### Citation Information |
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[More Information Needed] |
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### Contributions |
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Thanks to [@michael-aloys](https://github.com/michael-aloys) for adding this dataset. |
