metadata

license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
  - text-classification
language:
  - lo
dataset_info:
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    - name: text
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    - name: category
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    - name: date
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    - name: url
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Dataset Card for Lao News classification

Lao News classification dataset

This dataset are collected Lao News for News classification from laopost.com.

Dataset Details

Dataset Description

Curated by: Wannaphong Phatthiyaphaibun
Language(s) (NLP): Lao
License: cc-by-4.0

Uses

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.

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.

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