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masakhane/afrisenti

Name: afrisenti
Creator: masakhane
License: cc-by-nc-sa-2.0
Keywords: task_categories:text-classification, task_ids:sentiment-analysis, task_ids:sentiment-classification, task_ids:sentiment-scoring, task_ids:semantic-similarity-classification, task_ids:semantic-similarity-scoring, multilinguality:monolingual, multilinguality:multilingual, language:am, language:ha, language:ig, language:om, language:pt, language:sw, language:ti

Dataset Summary AfriSenti is the largest sentiment analysis dataset for under-represented African languages, covering 110,000+ annotated tweets in 14 African languages (Amharic, Algerian Arabic, Hausa, Igbo, Kinyarwanda, Moroccan Arabic, Mozambican Portuguese, Nigerian Pidgin, Oromo, Swahili, Tigrinya, Twi, Xitsonga, and Yoruba). The datasets are used in the first Afrocentric SemEval shared task, SemEval 2023 Task 12: Sentiment analysis for African languages… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/masakhane/afrisenti.

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Author / organization	masakhane
License (as declared)	cc-by-nc-sa-2.0
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Created	17 September 2024
Last updated at source	18 September 2024

sentiment analysis, Twitter, tweetssentiment

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17 Oct 2026 Description: Dataset Summary AfriSenti is the largest sentiment analysis dataset for under-represented African languages, covering 110,000+ annotated tweets in 14 African languages (Amharic, Algerian Arabic, Hausa, Igbo, Kinyarwanda, Moroccan Arabic, Mo → Dataset Summary AfriSenti is the largest sentiment analysis dataset for under-represented African languages, covering 110,000+ annotated tweets in 14 African languages (Amharic, Algerian Arabic, Hausa, Igbo, Kinyarwanda, Moroccan Arabic, Mo

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