hausa_voa_topics

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Use the following command to load this dataset in TFDS:

ds = tfds.load('huggingface:hausa_voa_topics')
  • Description:
A collection of news article headlines in Hausa from VOA Hausa.
Each headline is labeled with one of the following classes: Nigeria,
Africa, World, Health or Politics.

The dataset was presented in the paper:
Hedderich, Adelani, Zhu, Alabi, Markus, Klakow: Transfer Learning and
Distant Supervision for Multilingual Transformer Models: A Study on
African Languages (EMNLP 2020).
  • License: No known license
  • Version: 0.0.0
  • Splits:
Split Examples
'test' 582
'train' 2045
'validation' 290
  • Features:
{
    "news_title": {
        "dtype": "string",
        "id": null,
        "_type": "Value"
    },
    "label": {
        "num_classes": 5,
        "names": [
            "Africa",
            "Health",
            "Nigeria",
            "Politics",
            "World"
        ],
        "names_file": null,
        "id": null,
        "_type": "ClassLabel"
    }
}