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MasakhaNER

Introduced by David Ifeoluwa Adelani et al. in MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages22 Mar 2021 archive 2025-07-28

MasakhaNER is a collection of Named Entity Recognition (NER) datasets for 10 different African languages. The languages forming this dataset are: Amharic, Hausa, Igbo, Kinyarwanda, Luganda, Luo, Nigerian-Pidgin, Swahili, Wolof, and Yorùbá.

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

All 1 leaderboard whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.

First row (archive order)PaperCode
Cross-Lingual NER MasakhaNER2.0 EasyProject Bambara 45.8 Frustratingly Easy Label Projection for Cross-lingual Transfer edchengg/easyproject +1 2 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

2 shown of 2 papers with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 56. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

DateSamples run Syntology
T-Projection: High Quality Annotation Projection for Sequence Labeling Tasks 2 1 20 Dec 2022 not harvested
Frustratingly Easy Label Projection for Cross-lingual Transfer 2 1 28 Nov 2022 ran 0 of 9 samples (9 unverified)

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

1 loader as listed in the archive; links are outbound and not re-checked here.

Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

No licence recorded in the archive. Absence here is not a statement about the dataset's terms.

Modalities archive 2025-07-28

Languages archive 2025-07-28

Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • MasakhaNER
  • MasakhaNER2.0

2 variant names, as the archive lists them.

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