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  ## Dataset Summary
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- Swahili is spoken by 100-150 million people across East Africa. In Tanzania, it is one of two national languages (the other is English) and the official language of instruction in all schools. News in Swahili is an important part of the media sphere in Tanzania.
 
 
 
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- News contributes to education, technology, and a country's economic growth, and news in local languages plays an important cultural role in many African countries. However, in the modern age, African languages in news and other spheres are at risk of being lost as English becomes the dominant language in online spaces.
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- The Swahili news dataset was created to bridge the gap in utilizing the Swahili language to create NLP technologies. It aims to assist AI practitioners in Tanzania and across Africa in honing their NLP skills to address various challenges within organizations or societies related to the Swahili language. The Swahili news dataset, sourced from various websites providing news in Swahili, is a valuable resource for NLP research and development.
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- The dataset was curated explicitly for text classification tasks, categorizing news content into six distinct topics. This categorization facilitates the development of robust NLP models that can understand and process Swahili text more effectively. Additionally, the dataset includes a predefined train/test split, with 75% of the data allocated for training and 25% for testing, making it a practical tool for model evaluation.
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  ## Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
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+ Swahili is spoken by 100-150 million people across East Africa. In Tanzania, for example, Swahili is one of two national languages (the other is English) and is the official language of instruction in all schools. News in Swahili is an integral part of Tanzania's media sphere.
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+ News contributes to education, technology, and a country's economic growth, and news in local languages plays an important cultural role in many African countries. In the modern age, however, African languages in news and other spheres are at risk of being lost as English becomes the dominant language in online spaces.
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+ The Swahili news dataset was created to bridge the gap in utilizing the Swahili language to create NLP technologies. It aims to empower AI practitioners in Tanzania and across Africa, making them integral in the preservation and utilization of the Swahili language. This dataset, sourced from various websites providing news in Swahili, is a powerful resource for NLP research and development, and your role in utilizing it is crucial.
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+ Curated explicitly for text classification tasks, the dataset categorises news content into six distinct topics, enabling the creation of robust NLP models that can more effectively understand and process Swahili text. Additionally, this dataset is included in the MTEB to evaluate the capability of embedders to classify Swahili news accurately. The high accuracy of this dataset is attributed to the human annotation process involved in its creation.
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  ## Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
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