README.md

---
annotations_creators: []
language_creators:
- crowdsourced
language:
- si
license:
- mit
multilinguality:
- monolingual
pretty_name: sinhala-news-source-classification
size_categories: []
source_datasets: []
task_categories:
- text-classification
task_ids: []
---

This dataset contains Sinhala news headlines extracted from 9 news sources (websites) (Sri Lanka Army, Dinamina, GossipLanka, Hiru, ITN, Lankapuwath, NewsLK,
Newsfirst, World Socialist Web Site-Sinhala). This is a processed version of the corpus created by *Sachintha, D., Piyarathna, L., Rajitha, C., and Ranathunga, S. (2021). Exploiting parallel corpora to improve multilingual embedding based document and sentence alignment*. Single word sentences, invalid characters have been removed from the originally extracted corpus and also subsampled to handle class imbalance. 

If you use this dataset please cite {*Dhananjaya et al. BERTifying Sinhala - A Comprehensive Analysis of Pre-trained Language Models for Sinhala Text Classification, 2022*}