
# Dataset Card for Hausa VOA News Topic Classification dataset (hausa_voa_topics)

## Table of Contents
- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
  - [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
  - [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
  - [Languages](#languages)
- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
  - [Data Instances](#data-instances)
  - [Data Fields](#data-fields)
  - [Data Splits](#data-splits)
- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
  - [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)
  - [Source Data](#source-data)
  - [Annotations](#annotations)
  - [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)
- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)
  - [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset)
  - [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases)
  - [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
  - [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators)
  - [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
  - [Citation Information](#citation-information)
  - [Contributions](#contributions)

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** -
- **Repository:** https://github.com/uds-lsv/transfer-distant-transformer-african
- **Paper:** https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.emnlp-main.204/
- **Leaderboard:** -
- **Point of Contact:** Michael A. Hedderich and David Adelani 
{mhedderich, didelani} (at) lsv.uni-saarland.de

### Dataset Summary

A news headline topic classification dataset, similar to AG-news, for Hausa. The news headlines were collected from [VOA Hausa](https://www.voahausa.com/).

### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

[More Information Needed]

### Languages

Hausa (ISO 639-1: ha)

## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

An instance consists of a news title sentence and the corresponding topic label.

### Data Fields

- `news_title`: A news title 
- `label`: The label describing the topic of the news title. Can be one of the following classes: Nigeria, Africa, World, Health or Politics.

### Data Splits

[More Information Needed]

## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

[More Information Needed]

### Source Data

#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

[More Information Needed]

#### Who are the source language producers?

[More Information Needed]

### Annotations

#### Annotation process

[More Information Needed]

#### Who are the annotators?

[More Information Needed]

### Personal and Sensitive Information

[More Information Needed]

## Considerations for Using the Data

### Social Impact of Dataset

[More Information Needed]

### Discussion of Biases

[More Information Needed]

### Other Known Limitations

[More Information Needed]

## Additional Information

### Dataset Curators

[More Information Needed]

### Licensing Information

[More Information Needed]

### Citation Information

[More Information Needed]

### Contributions

Thanks to [@michael-aloys](https://github.com/michael-aloys) for adding this dataset.
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# Dataset Card for Hausa VOA News Topic Classification dataset (hausa_voa_topics)

## Table of Contents
- Dataset Description
  - Dataset Summary
  - Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
  - Languages
- Dataset Structure
  - Data Instances
  - Data Fields
  - Data Splits
- Dataset Creation
  - Curation Rationale
  - Source Data
  - Annotations
  - Personal and Sensitive Information
- Considerations for Using the Data
  - Social Impact of Dataset
  - Discussion of Biases
  - Other Known Limitations
- Additional Information
  - Dataset Curators
  - Licensing Information
  - Citation Information
  - Contributions

## Dataset Description

- Homepage: -
- Repository: URL
- Paper: URL
- Leaderboard: -
- Point of Contact: Michael A. Hedderich and David Adelani 
{mhedderich, didelani} (at) URL

### Dataset Summary

A news headline topic classification dataset, similar to AG-news, for Hausa. The news headlines were collected from VOA Hausa.

### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards



### Languages

Hausa (ISO 639-1: ha)

## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

An instance consists of a news title sentence and the corresponding topic label.

### Data Fields

- 'news_title': A news title 
- 'label': The label describing the topic of the news title. Can be one of the following classes: Nigeria, Africa, World, Health or Politics.

### Data Splits



## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale



### Source Data

#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization



#### Who are the source language producers?



### Annotations

#### Annotation process



#### Who are the annotators?



### Personal and Sensitive Information



## Considerations for Using the Data

### Social Impact of Dataset



### Discussion of Biases



### Other Known Limitations



## Additional Information

### Dataset Curators



### Licensing Information







### Contributions

Thanks to @michael-aloys for adding this dataset.
# Dataset Card for Hausa VOA News Topic Classification dataset (hausa_voa_topics) ## Table of Contents
- Dataset Description
  - Dataset Summary
  - Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
  - Languages
- Dataset Structure
  - Data Instances
  - Data Fields
  - Data Splits
- Dataset Creation
  - Curation Rationale
  - Source Data
  - Annotations
  - Personal and Sensitive Information
- Considerations for Using the Data
  - Social Impact of Dataset
  - Discussion of Biases
  - Other Known Limitations
- Additional Information
  - Dataset Curators
  - Licensing Information
  - Citation Information
  - Contributions ## Dataset Description

- Homepage: -
- Repository: URL
- Paper: URL
- Leaderboard: -
- Point of Contact: Michael A. Hedderich and David Adelani 
{mhedderich, didelani} (at) URL ### Dataset Summary

A news headline topic classification dataset, similar to AG-news, for Hausa. The news headlines were collected from VOA Hausa. ### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards ### Languages

Hausa (ISO 639-1: ha) ## Dataset Structure ### Data Instances

An instance consists of a news title sentence and the corresponding topic label. ### Data Fields

- 'news_title': A news title 
- 'label': The label describing the topic of the news title. Can be one of the following classes: Nigeria, Africa, World, Health or Politics. ### Data Splits ## Dataset Creation ### Curation Rationale ### Source Data #### Initial Data Collection and Normalization #### Who are the source language producers? ### Annotations #### Annotation process #### Who are the annotators? ### Personal and Sensitive Information ## Considerations for Using the Data ### Social Impact of Dataset ### Discussion of Biases ### Other Known Limitations ## Additional Information ### Dataset Curators ### Licensing Information ### Contributions

Thanks to @michael-aloys for adding this dataset.
TAGS
#task_categories-text-classification #task_ids-topic-classification #annotations_creators-expert-generated #language_creators-found #multilinguality-monolingual #size_categories-1K<n<10K #source_datasets-original #language-Hausa #license-unknown #region-us 
 # Dataset Card for Hausa VOA News Topic Classification dataset (hausa_voa_topics) ## Table of Contents
- Dataset Description
  - Dataset Summary
  - Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
  - Languages
- Dataset Structure
  - Data Instances
  - Data Fields
  - Data Splits
- Dataset Creation
  - Curation Rationale
  - Source Data
  - Annotations
  - Personal and Sensitive Information
- Considerations for Using the Data
  - Social Impact of Dataset
  - Discussion of Biases
  - Other Known Limitations
- Additional Information
  - Dataset Curators
  - Licensing Information
  - Citation Information
  - Contributions ## Dataset Description

- Homepage: -
- Repository: URL
- Paper: URL
- Leaderboard: -
- Point of Contact: Michael A. Hedderich and David Adelani 
{mhedderich, didelani} (at) URL ### Dataset Summary

A news headline topic classification dataset, similar to AG-news, for Hausa. The news headlines were collected from VOA Hausa. ### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards ### Languages

Hausa (ISO 639-1: ha) ## Dataset Structure ### Data Instances

An instance consists of a news title sentence and the corresponding topic label. ### Data Fields

- 'news_title': A news title 
- 'label': The label describing the topic of the news title. Can be one of the following classes: Nigeria, Africa, World, Health or Politics. ### Data Splits ## Dataset Creation ### Curation Rationale ### Source Data #### Initial Data Collection and Normalization #### Who are the source language producers? ### Annotations #### Annotation process #### Who are the annotators? ### Personal and Sensitive Information ## Considerations for Using the Data ### Social Impact of Dataset ### Discussion of Biases ### Other Known Limitations ## Additional Information ### Dataset Curators ### Licensing Information ### Contributions

Thanks to @michael-aloys for adding this dataset.