

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*}
task_categories:text-classification language_creators:crowdsourced multilinguality:monolingual size_categories:1K<n<10K language:si license:mit region:us
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#task_categories-text-classification #language_creators-crowdsourced #multilinguality-monolingual #size_categories-1K<n<10K #language-Sinhala #license-mit #region-us 



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*}
TAGS
#task_categories-text-classification #language_creators-crowdsourced #multilinguality-monolingual #size_categories-1K<n<10K #language-Sinhala #license-mit #region-us 
