---
license: apache-2.0
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: data/train-*
  - split: test
    path: data/test-*
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: title
    dtype: string
  - name: content
    dtype: string
  - name: author
    dtype: string
  - name: category
    dtype: string
  - name: published_date
    dtype: string
  - name: page_url
    dtype: string
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 37552844
    num_examples: 9969
  - name: test
    num_bytes: 9997637
    num_examples: 8773
  download_size: 17155500
  dataset_size: 47550481
---


GhanaNews dataset is a collection of news articles from various Ghanaian News Portals (MyJoyOnline, GraphicOnline, GhanaWeb, PulseGh, CitiNewsOnline, ect). The dataset is provided by the academic comunity for research purposes in data mining (clustering, classification, etc), information retrieval (ranking, search, etc), xml, data compression, data streaming, and any other non-commercial activity.

The Ghana news topic classification dataset is constructed by Theophilus Siameh (theodondre@gmail.com) from the dataset above.

### Context QA: in context question answering from an article
```shell
{"article": "...", "question": "...", "answer": "..."}
```
### Article and Summary
```shell
{"article": "...", "summary": "..."}
```

### Load Dataset
```shell
pip install datasets
```
```python
from datasets import load_dataset

train = load_dataset("worldboss/ghana-news", split="train")
test =  load_dataset("worldboss/ghana-news", split="test")
```