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annotations_creators: [] |
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language_creators: |
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- crowdsourced |
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language: |
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- si |
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license: |
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- mit |
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multilinguality: |
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- monolingual |
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pretty_name: sinhala-news-category-classification |
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size_categories: |
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- 1K<n<10K |
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source_datasets: [] |
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task_categories: |
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- text-classification |
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task_ids: [] |
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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. |
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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*} |
