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masakhane/masakhaner

Name: masakhaner
Creator: masakhane
License: unknown
Keywords: task_categories:token-classification, task_ids:named-entity-recognition, annotations_creators:expert-generated, language_creators:expert-generated, multilinguality:multilingual, source_datasets:original, language:am, language:ha, language:ig, language:lg, language:luo, language:pcm, language:rw, language:sw, language:wo

MasakhaNER is the first large publicly available high-quality dataset for named entity recognition (NER) in ten African languages. Named entities are phrases that contain the names of persons, organizations, locations, times and quantities. Example: [PER Wolff] , currently a journalist in [LOC Argentina] , played with [PER Del Bosque] in the final years of the seventies in [ORG Real Madrid] . MasakhaNER is a named entity dataset consisting of PER, ORG, LOC, and DATE entities annotated by Masakhane for ten African languages: - Amharic - Hausa - Igbo - Kinyarwanda - Luganda - Luo - Nigerian-Pidg

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Author / organization	masakhane
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Downloads	444 (as reported by Hugging Face)
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Created	2 March 2022
Last updated at source	18 January 2024

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