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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.
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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*}