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masakhane/masakhaner2

Name: masakhaner2
Creator: masakhane
License: afl-3.0
Keywords: task_categories:token-classification, task_ids:named-entity-recognition, annotations_creators:expert-generated, language_creators:expert-generated, multilinguality:multilingual, source_datasets:original, language:bm, language:bbj, language:ee, language:fon, language:ha, language:ig, language:rw, language:lg, language:luo

MasakhaNER 2.0 is the largest publicly available high-quality dataset for named entity recognition (NER) in 20 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 20 African languages: - Bambara (bam) - Ghomala (bbj) - Ewe (ewe) - Fon (fon) - Hausa (hau) -

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Author / organization	masakhane
License (as declared)	afl-3.0
Downloads	957 (as reported by Hugging Face)
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Created	15 December 2022
Last updated at source	11 September 2023

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