
This dataset contains Sinhala news headlines extracted from 9 news sources (websites) (Sri Lanka Army, Dinamina, GossipLanka, Hiru, ITN, Lankapuwath, NewsLK,
Newsfirst, World Socialist Web Site-Sinhala). This is a processed version of the corpus created by *Sachintha, D., Piyarathna, L., Rajitha, C., and Ranathunga, S. (2021). Exploiting parallel corpora to improve multilingual embedding based document and sentence alignment*. Single word sentences, invalid characters have been removed from the originally extracted corpus and also subsampled to handle class imbalance. 

If you use this dataset please cite {*Dhananjaya et al. BERTifying Sinhala - A Comprehensive Analysis of Pre-trained Language Models for Sinhala Text Classification, 2022*}
task_categories:text-classification language_creators:crowdsourced multilinguality:monolingual language:si license:mit region:us
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#task_categories-text-classification #language_creators-crowdsourced #multilinguality-monolingual #language-Sinhala #license-mit #region-us 


This dataset contains Sinhala news headlines extracted from 9 news sources (websites) (Sri Lanka Army, Dinamina, GossipLanka, Hiru, ITN, Lankapuwath, NewsLK,
Newsfirst, World Socialist Web Site-Sinhala). This is a processed version of the corpus created by *Sachintha, D., Piyarathna, L., Rajitha, C., and Ranathunga, S. (2021). Exploiting parallel corpora to improve multilingual embedding based document and sentence alignment*. Single word sentences, invalid characters have been removed from the originally extracted corpus and also subsampled to handle class imbalance. 

If you use this dataset please cite {*Dhananjaya et al. BERTifying Sinhala - A Comprehensive Analysis of Pre-trained Language Models for Sinhala Text Classification, 2022*}
TAGS
#task_categories-text-classification #language_creators-crowdsourced #multilinguality-monolingual #language-Sinhala #license-mit #region-us 

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#task_categories-text-classification #language_creators-crowdsourced #multilinguality-monolingual #language-Sinhala #license-mit #region-us 
