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Dataset Summary
Kinyarwanda and Kirundi news classification datasets (KINNEWS and KIRNEWS,respectively), which were both collected from Rwanda and Burundi news websites and newspapers, for low-resource monolingual and cross-lingual multiclass classification tasks.
Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
This dataset can be used for text classification of news articles in Kinyarwadi and Kirundi languages. Each news article can be classified into one of the 14 possible classes. The classes are:
- politics
- sport
- economy
- health
- entertainment
- history
- technology
- culture
- religion
- environment
- education
- relationship
Languages
Kinyarwanda and Kirundi
Dataset Structure
Data Instances
Here is an example from the dataset:
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| label | 1 |
| kin_label/kir_label | 'inkino' |
| url | 'https://nawe.bi/Primus-Ligue-Imirwi-igiye-guhura-gute-ku-ndwi-ya-6-y-ihiganwa.html' |
| title | 'Primus Ligue\xa0: Imirwi igiye guhura gute ku ndwi ya 6 y’ihiganwa\xa0?' |
| content | ' Inkino zitegekanijwe kuruno wa gatandatu igenekerezo rya 14 Nyakanga umwaka wa 2019...' |
| en_label | 'sport' |
Data Fields
The raw version of the data for Kinyarwanda language consists of these fields
- label: The category of the news article
- kin_label/kir_label: The associated label in Kinyarwanda/Kirundi language
- en_label: The associated label in English
- url: The URL of the news article
- title: The title of the news article
- content: The content of the news article
The cleaned version contains only the label, title and the content fields
Data Splits
| Lang | Train | Test |
|---|---|---|
| Kinyarwandai Raw | 17014 | 4254 |
| Kinyarwandai Clean | 17014 | 4254 |
| Kirundi Raw | 3689 | 923 |
| Kirundi Clean | 3689 | 923 |
Dataset Creation
Curation Rationale
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Source Data
Initial Data Collection and Normalization
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Who are the source language producers?
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Annotations
Annotation process
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Who are the annotators?
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Personal and Sensitive Information
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Considerations for Using the Data
Social Impact of Dataset
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Discussion of Biases
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Other Known Limitations
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Additional Information
Dataset Curators
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Citation Information
@article{niyongabo2020kinnews,
title={KINNEWS and KIRNEWS: Benchmarking Cross-Lingual Text Classification for Kinyarwanda and Kirundi},
author={Niyongabo, Rubungo Andre and Qu, Hong and Kreutzer, Julia and Huang, Li},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.12174},
year={2020}
}
Contributions
Thanks to @saradhix for adding this dataset.
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Repository:
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Paper:
KINNEWS and KIRNEWS: Benchmarking Cross-Lingual Text Classification for Kinyarwanda and Kirundi
Leaderboard:
NA
Point of Contact:
Rubungo Andre Niyongabo1
Models trained or fine-tuned on andreniyongabo/kinnews_kirnews