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---
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