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license: mit
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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. 

If you use the 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*}