task_categories:text-classification language_creators:crowdsourced multilinguality:monolingual language:si license:mit region:us
---
annotations_creators: []
language_creators:
- crowdsourced
language:
- si
license:
- mit
multilinguality:
- monolingual
pretty_name: sinhala-writing-style-classification
size_categories: []
source_datasets: []
task_categories:
- text-classification
task_ids: []
---
This file contains news texts (sentences) belonging to different writing styles. The original dataset created by {*Upeksha, D., Wijayarathna, C., Siriwardena, M.,
Lasandun, L., Wimalasuriya, C., de Silva, N., and Dias, G. (2015). Implementing a corpus for Sinhala language. 01*}is processed and cleaned.

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*} and the above mentioned paper.