Datasets:
Tasks:
Text Classification
Modalities:
Text
Formats:
parquet
Languages:
Lao
Size:
10K - 100K
License:
File size: 5,265 Bytes
d45f767 20b72e0 0086570 d45f767 0086570 d45f767 0086570 98e4e0f 0086570 20b72e0 |
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 |
---
license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
- text-classification
language:
- lo
dataset_info:
features:
- name: title
dtype: string
- name: text
dtype: string
- name: category
dtype: string
- name: date
dtype: string
- name: url
dtype: string
splits:
- name: train
num_bytes: 35918409
num_examples: 9196
- name: validation
num_bytes: 12004289
num_examples: 3066
- name: test
num_bytes: 11900560
num_examples: 3066
download_size: 23075226
dataset_size: 59823258
configs:
- config_name: default
data_files:
- split: train
path: data/train-*
- split: validation
path: data/validation-*
- split: test
path: data/test-*
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
---
# Dataset Card for Lao News classification
Lao News classification dataset
This dataset are collected Lao News for News classification from [laopost.com](https://laopost.com/).
## Dataset Details
### Dataset Description
- **Curated by:** Wannaphong Phatthiyaphaibun
- **Language(s) (NLP):** Lao
- **License:** cc-by-4.0
## Uses
<!-- Address questions around how the dataset is intended to be used. -->
### Direct Use
News classification
## Dataset Structure
The dataset is divided into three splits: `train`, `validation`, and `test`. Each split contains news articles, with each article represented as a dictionary with the following fields:
* **title:** The title of the news article (string).
* **text:** The main content of the news article (string).
* **category:** The category of the news article (string).
* **date:** The publication date of the news article (string).
* **url:** The URL of the news article (string).
The dataset is structured as a `DatasetDict` object, which contains three `Dataset` objects, one for each split.
* The `train` split contains 9196 news articles.
* The `validation` split contains 3066 news articles.
* The `test` split contains 3066 news articles.
The splits likely represent a standard train/validation/test split, designed for training, evaluating, and testing machine learning models. The exact criteria used to create these splits are not explicitly stated, but are implied to provide a representative distribution of the data.
### Categorys
**Train**
```
ຂ່າວຕ່າງປະເທດ 3417
ຂ່າວພາຍໃນ 3219
ຂ່າວທ້ອງຖິ່ນ 1307
ຂ່າວເຫດການ 459
ສຸຂະພາບ ແລະ ສີ່ງແວດລ້ອມ 404
ຂ່າວບັນເທິງ 240
ຂ່າວທ່ອງທ່ຽວ 150
```
**Validation**
```
ຂ່າວຕ່າງປະເທດ 1163
ຂ່າວພາຍໃນ 1026
ຂ່າວທ້ອງຖິ່ນ 449
ຂ່າວເຫດການ 157
ສຸຂະພາບ ແລະ ສີ່ງແວດລ້ອມ 137
ຂ່າວບັນເທິງ 86
ຂ່າວທ່ອງທ່ຽວ 48
```
**Test**
```
ຂ່າວຕ່າງປະເທດ 1185
ຂ່າວພາຍໃນ 1059
ຂ່າວທ້ອງຖິ່ນ 431
ຂ່າວເຫດການ 147
ສຸຂະພາບ ແລະ ສີ່ງແວດລ້ອມ 136
ຂ່າວບັນເທິງ 64
ຂ່າວທ່ອງທ່ຽວ 44
```
## Dataset Creation
We are collected news and categorys from [laopost.com](https://laopost.com/).
**Categorys**
- `ຂ່າວຕ່າງປະເທດ`: Foreign news
- `ຂ່າວພາຍໃນ`: Laos internal news
- `ຂ່າວທ້ອງຖິ່ນ`: Local news
- `ຂ່າວເຫດການ`: Event news, such as accidents, crimes, illegal activities
- `ສຸຂະພາບ ແລະ ສີ່ງແວດລ້ອມ`: Health and environmental news
- `ຂ່າວບັນເທິງ`: Entertainment news
- `ຂ່າວທ່ອງທ່ຽວ`: Travel News
Other categories are not collect to this dataset because it has few news in the tag, duplicate categories (Example ອຸບັດເຫດແລະປາກົດການຫຍໍ້ທໍ້ and ຂ່າວເຫດການ), or the tag are out-of-date update in the website (Example ມູມໄອທີລາວ or IT news latest update 22/11/2024 ).
### Licensing Information
The dataset is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The use of this dataset is also subject to [CommonCrawl's Terms of Use](https://commoncrawl.org/terms-of-use).
## Citation
If you use this dataset in your project or research, you can cite as follows:
**BibTeX:**
```
@dataset{phatthiyaphaibun_2025_14967275,
author = {Phatthiyaphaibun, Wannaphong},
title = {Lao News classification},
month = mar,
year = 2025,
publisher = {Zenodo},
version = {1.0.0},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.14967275},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14967275},
}
```
**APA:**
Phatthiyaphaibun, W. (2025). Lao News classification (1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14967275 |