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MasakhaNEWS

Introduced by David Ifeoluwa Adelani et al. in MasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African languages19 Apr 2023 archive 2025-07-28

MasakhaNEWS is a benchmark dataset for news topic classification covering 16 languages widely spoken in Africa.

Source: MasakhaNEWS: News Topic Classification for African languages

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

Languages archive 2025-07-28

Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • MasakhaNEWS

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