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license: mit
annotations_creators: [] language_creators: - crowdsourced languages: - si licenses: - mit multilinguality: - monolingual pretty_name: sinhala-news-category-classification size_categories: - 1K<n<10K source_datasets: [] task_categories: - text-classification task_ids: []
This file contains news texts (sentences) belonging to 5 different news categories (political, business, technology, sports and Entertainment). The original dataset was released by Nisansa de Silva (Sinhala Text Classification: Observations from the Perspective of a Resource Poor Language, 2015). The original dataset is processed and cleaned of single word texts, English only sentences etc.
If you use this dataset, please cite {Nisansa de Silva, Sinhala Text Classification: Observations from the Perspective of a Resource Poor Language, 2015} and {Dhananjaya et al. BERTifying Sinhala - A Comprehensive Analysis of Pre-trained Language Models for Sinhala Text Classification, 2022}