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mteb/SwahiliNewsClassification

Name: SwahiliNewsClassification
Creator: mteb
License: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
Keywords: task_categories:text-classification, annotations_creators:derived, multilinguality:monolingual, source_datasets:Mollel/SwahiliNewsClassification, language:swa, license:cc-by-nc-sa-4.0, size_categories:1K<n<10K, format:parquet, modality:text, library:datasets, library:pandas, library:mlcroissant, library:polars, arxiv:2502.13595, arxiv:2210.07316

SwahiliNewsClassification An MTEB dataset Massive Text Embedding Benchmark Dataset for Swahili News Classification, categorized with 6 domains (Local News (Kitaifa), International News (Kimataifa), Finance News (Uchumi), Health News (Afya), Sports News (Michezo), and Entertainment News (Burudani)). Building and Optimizing Swahili Language Models: Techniques, Embeddings, and Datasets Task category t2c Domains News, Written Reference… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/SwahiliNewsClassification.

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Author / organization	mteb
License (as declared)	cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
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Created	19 June 2025
Last updated at source	19 June 2025

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