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:ha license:unknown region:us
A collection of news article headlines in Hausa from VOA Hausa.
Each headline is labeled with one of the following classes: Nigeria,
Africa, World, Health or Politics.

The dataset was presented in the paper:
Hedderich, Adelani, Zhu, Alabi, Markus, Klakow: Transfer Learning and
Distant Supervision for Multilingual Transformer Models: A Study on
African Languages (EMNLP 2020).
@inproceedings{hedderich-etal-2020-transfer,
    title = "Transfer Learning and Distant Supervision for Multilingual Transformer Models: A Study on African Languages",
    author = "Hedderich, Michael A.  and
      Adelani, David  and
      Zhu, Dawei  and
      Alabi, Jesujoba  and
      Markus, Udia  and
      Klakow, Dietrich",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)",
    year = "2020",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.emnlp-main.204",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.204",
}
---
annotations_creators:
- expert-generated
language_creators:
- found
language:
- ha
license:
- unknown
multilinguality:
- monolingual
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- text-classification
task_ids:
- topic-classification
pretty_name: Hausa Voa News Topic Classification Dataset (HausaVoaTopics)
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: news_title
    dtype: string
  - name: label
    dtype:
      class_label:
        names:
          '0': Africa
          '1': Health
          '2': Nigeria
          '3': Politics
          '4': World
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 144932
    num_examples: 2045
  - name: validation
    num_bytes: 20565
    num_examples: 290
  - name: test
    num_bytes: 41195
    num_examples: 582
  download_size: 195824
  dataset_size: 206692
---

# 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.