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Tasks:
Text Classification
Sub-tasks:
topic-classification
Languages:
Yoruba
Multilinguality:
monolingual
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found
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annotations_creators:
- expert-generated
language_creators:
- found
language:
- yo
license:
- unknown
multilinguality:
- monolingual
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
source_datasets:
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task_categories:
- text-classification
task_ids:
- topic-classification
pretty_name: Yoruba Bbc News Topic Classification Dataset (YorubaBbcTopics)
dataset_info:
features:
- name: news_title
dtype: string
- name: label
dtype:
class_label:
names:
'0': africa
'1': entertainment
'2': health
'3': nigeria
'4': politics
'5': sport
'6': world
- name: date
dtype: string
- name: bbc_url_id
dtype: string
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- name: validation
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- name: test
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# Dataset Card for Yoruba BBC News Topic Classification dataset (yoruba_bbc_topics)
## Table of Contents
- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
- [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
- [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
- [Languages](#languages)
- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
- [Data Instances](#data-instances)
- [Data Fields](#data-fields)
- [Data Splits](#data-splits)
- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
- [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)
- [Source Data](#source-data)
- [Annotations](#annotations)
- [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)
- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)
- [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset)
- [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases)
- [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
- [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators)
- [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
- [Citation Information](#citation-information)
- [Contributions](#contributions)
## Dataset Description
- **Homepage:** -
- **Repository:** https://github.com/uds-lsv/transfer-distant-transformer-african
- **Paper:** https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.emnlp-main.204/
- **Leaderboard:** -
- **Point of Contact:** Michael A. Hedderich and David Adelani
{mhedderich, didelani} (at) lsv.uni-saarland.de
### Dataset Summary
A news headline topic classification dataset, similar to AG-news, for Yorùbá. The news headlines were collected from [BBC Yoruba](https://www.bbc.com/yoruba).
### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
[More Information Needed]
### Languages
Yorùbá (ISO 639-1: yo)
## Dataset Structure
### Data Instances
An instance consists of a news title sentence and the corresponding topic label as well as publishing information (date and website id).
### Data Fields
- `news_title`: A news title.
- `label`: The label describing the topic of the news title. Can be one of the following classes: africa, entertainment, health, nigeria, politics, sport or world.
- `date`: The publication date (in Yorùbá).
- `bbc_url_id`: The identifier of the article in the BBC URL.
### Data Splits
[More Information Needed]
## Dataset Creation
### Curation Rationale
[More Information Needed]
### Source Data
#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization
[More Information Needed]
#### Who are the source language producers?
[More Information Needed]
### Annotations
#### Annotation process
[More Information Needed]
#### Who are the annotators?
[More Information Needed]
### Personal and Sensitive Information
[More Information Needed]
## Considerations for Using the Data
### Social Impact of Dataset
[More Information Needed]
### Discussion of Biases
[More Information Needed]
### Other Known Limitations
[More Information Needed]
## Additional Information
### Dataset Curators
[More Information Needed]
### Licensing Information
[More Information Needed]
### Citation Information
[More Information Needed]
### Contributions
Thanks to [@michael-aloys](https://github.com/michael-aloys) for adding this dataset. |