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MasakhaNER
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) | Paper | Code | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
| Date | Samples 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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