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mteb/SinhalaNewsClassification

Name: SinhalaNewsClassification
Creator: mteb
License: mit
Keywords: task_categories:text-classification, task_ids:topic-classification, annotations_creators:derived, multilinguality:monolingual, source_datasets:NLPC-UOM/Sinhala-News-Category-classification, language:sin, license:mit, size_categories:1K<n<10K, format:parquet, modality:text, library:datasets, library:pandas, library:mlcroissant, library:polars, arxiv:2502.13595

SinhalaNewsClassification An MTEB dataset Massive Text Embedding Benchmark This file contains news texts (sentences) belonging to 5 different news categories (political, business, technology, sports and Entertainment). The original dataset was released by Nisansa de Silva (Sinhala Text Classification: Observations from the Perspective of a Resource Poor Language, 2015). Task category t2c Domains News, Written Reference… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/SinhalaNewsClassification.

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Author / organization	mteb
License (as declared)	mit
Downloads	1.2K (as reported by Hugging Face)
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Created	19 June 2025
Last updated at source	19 June 2025

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