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UdS-LSV/yoruba_bbc_topics

Name: yoruba_bbc_topics
Creator: UdS-LSV
License: unknown
Keywords: task_categories:text-classification, task_ids:topic-classification, annotations_creators:expert-generated, language_creators:found, multilinguality:monolingual, source_datasets:original, language:yo, license:unknown, size_categories:1K<n<10K, region:us

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).

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Created	2 March 2022
Last updated at source	18 January 2024

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