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annotations_creators: [] |
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language_creators: |
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- crowdsourced |
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language: |
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- si |
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license: |
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- mit |
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multilinguality: |
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- monolingual |
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pretty_name: sinhala-news-source-classification |
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size_categories: [] |
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source_datasets: [] |
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task_categories: |
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- text-classification |
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task_ids: [] |
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This dataset contains Sinhala news headlines extracted from 9 news sources (websites) (Sri Lanka Army, Dinamina, GossipLanka, Hiru, ITN, Lankapuwath, NewsLK, |
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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. |
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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*} |
