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KINNEWS and KIRNEWS

Introduced by Rubungo Andre Niyongabo et al. in KINNEWS and KIRNEWS: Benchmarking Cross-Lingual Text Classification for Kinyarwanda and Kirundi archive 2025-07-28

Two news datasets (KINNEWS and KIRNEWS) for multi-class classification of news articles in Kinyarwanda and Kirundi, two low-resource African languages. The two languages are mutually intelligible.

Source: KINNEWS and KIRNEWS: Benchmarking Cross-Lingual Text Classification for Kinyarwanda and Kirundi

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

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Modalities archive 2025-07-28

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Languages archive 2025-07-28

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Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • KINNEWS and KIRNEWS

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