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mteb/masakhanews

Name: masakhanews
Creator: mteb
License: cc-by-nc-4.0
Keywords: task_categories:text-classification, annotations_creators:expert-annotated, multilinguality:multilingual, language:amh, language:eng, language:fra, language:hau, language:ibo, language:lin, language:lug, language:orm, language:pcm, language:run, language:sna, language:som

MasakhaNEWSClassification An MTEB dataset Massive Text Embedding Benchmark MasakhaNEWS is the largest publicly available dataset for news topic classification in 16 languages widely spoken in Africa. The train/validation/test sets are available for all the 16 languages. Task categoryt2c Domains News, Written Reference https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09972 How to evaluate on this task You can evaluate an embedding model on this dataset using the following… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/masakhanews.

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Author / organization	mteb
License (as declared)	cc-by-nc-4.0
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Created	7 May 2024
Last updated at source	24 February 2026

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