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Yoruba
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monolingual
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# Lint as: python3
"""Yoruba BBC News Topic Classification dataset."""


import csv

import datasets


_DESCRIPTION = """\
A collection of news article headlines in Yoruba from BBC Yoruba.
Each headline is labeled with one of the following classes: africa,
entertainment, health, nigeria, politics, sport or world.

The dataset was presented in the paper:
Hedderich, Adelani, Zhu, Alabi, Markus, Klakow: Transfer Learning and
Distant Supervision for Multilingual Transformer Models: A Study on
African Languages (EMNLP 2020).
"""

_CITATION = """\
@inproceedings{hedderich-etal-2020-transfer,
    title = "Transfer Learning and Distant Supervision for Multilingual Transformer Models: A Study on African Languages",
    author = "Hedderich, Michael A.  and
      Adelani, David  and
      Zhu, Dawei  and
      Alabi, Jesujoba  and
      Markus, Udia  and
      Klakow, Dietrich",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)",
    year = "2020",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.emnlp-main.204",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.204",
}
"""

_TRAIN_DOWNLOAD_URL = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/uds-lsv/transfer-distant-transformer-african/master/data/yoruba_newsclass/train_clean.tsv"
_VALIDATION_DOWNLOAD_URL = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/uds-lsv/transfer-distant-transformer-african/master/data/yoruba_newsclass/dev.tsv"
_TEST_DOWNLOAD_URL = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/uds-lsv/transfer-distant-transformer-african/master/data/yoruba_newsclass/test.tsv"


class YorubaBBCTopics(datasets.GeneratorBasedBuilder):
    """Yoruba BBC Topic Classification dataset."""

    def _info(self):
        return datasets.DatasetInfo(
            description=_DESCRIPTION,
            features=datasets.Features(
                {
                    "news_title": datasets.Value("string"),
                    "label": datasets.features.ClassLabel(
                        names=["africa", "entertainment", "health", "nigeria", "politics", "sport", "world"]
                    ),
                    "date": datasets.Value("string"),
                    "bbc_url_id": datasets.Value("string"),
                }
            ),
            homepage="https://github.com/uds-lsv/transfer-distant-transformer-african",
            citation=_CITATION,
        )

    def _split_generators(self, dl_manager):
        train_path = dl_manager.download_and_extract(_TRAIN_DOWNLOAD_URL)
        validation_path = dl_manager.download_and_extract(_VALIDATION_DOWNLOAD_URL)
        test_path = dl_manager.download_and_extract(_TEST_DOWNLOAD_URL)
        return [
            datasets.SplitGenerator(name=datasets.Split.TRAIN, gen_kwargs={"filepath": train_path}),
            datasets.SplitGenerator(name=datasets.Split.VALIDATION, gen_kwargs={"filepath": validation_path}),
            datasets.SplitGenerator(name=datasets.Split.TEST, gen_kwargs={"filepath": test_path}),
        ]

    def _generate_examples(self, filepath):
        """Generate Yoruba BBC News Topic examples."""
        with open(filepath, encoding="utf-8") as csv_file:
            csv_reader = csv.DictReader(csv_file, delimiter="\t")
            for id_, row in enumerate(csv_reader):
                yield id_, {
                    "news_title": row["news_title"],
                    "label": row["label"],
                    "date": row["date"],
                    "bbc_url_id": row["bbc_url_id"],
                }