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AfriBERTa Corpus - Nigerian Pidgin

Nigerian Pidgin(pcm)TextLMWest Africa
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Dataset Info

Language
Nigerian Pidgin (pcm)
Modality
Text
Domain
General/News
Size
1M<n<10M
Institution
Ogueji, Kelechi et al. (University of Waterloo / Castorini Lab)
Last Updated
11 Jun 2026

License & Access

SPDX identifierApache-2.0

Open — attribution required; commercial use allowed.

RedistributionYes

PII RISK

Low risk

Full Record

31 of 46 fields stated

Every column the registry tracks. Values marked derivedwere filled by a rule or read from the source's text rather than stated in its metadata; the rule or the quoted sentence is shown under the value.

Registry columns (24/27)

iso code
pcm
Dataset name
AfriBERTa Corpus - Nigerian Pidgin
Modality
Text
Type
dataset
Link
https://huggingface.co/datasets/castorini/afriberta-corpus
NLP Task
LM
Domain
General/News
Data Format
json, zipderivedHugging Face card: file formats
Size Metric
Sentences
Size Value
1M<n<10MderivedHugging Face card: size_categories
License
Apache-2.0
Open Access
Open
Source Repository
Hugging Face
Year Published
2021
Creator/Author(s)
Ogueji, Kelechi et al. (University of Waterloo / Castorini Lab)
Funder/Partner
University of Waterloo
Dialect Coverage
Standard
Gender Balance
Not stated
Speaker Count
Not stated
Annotation Type
Automatic
Status
Active
Has Datasheet
Yes
PII Risk
Low
Consent Verified
Not stated
Verified By
Emmanuel
Date Indexed
2026-06-11
Notes / Flags
Nigerian Pidgin (pcm) included in AfriBERTa pretraining corpus. Sourced from BBC News Pidgin (bbcpidgin.com), a major news source that publishes daily news excl…

Quality (DQI) (6/12)

Datasheet Fields Completed
Not stated
SPDX License ID
Apache-2.0
Redistribution Allowed?
Yes
Content Hash
d83da9653ef2a5f823c3693a28018e3009464522derivedHugging Face card: commit sha
Submitted By
hf_data pipeline (automated)
Fetch Date
2026-06-11
Last Updated Date
2022-10-19derivedHugging Face card: lastModified
Annotation Guidelines Available?
Not stated
IAA Score
Not stated
Cleaning Notes
Not stated
Benchmark Exists?
Not stated
Benchmark Citation
Not stated

Representativeness (DRI) (1/7)

Gender Distribution
Not stated
Region Coverage
Not stated
Region Distribution
Not stated
Age Range Coverage
Not stated
Register
Not stated
Marginalized Group Note
Not stated
Demographic Fields Reported Count
0

Readiness Score Breakdown

5/5
Data Coverage100%
Model Availability100%
Benchmarks100%
Documentation77%
Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance
Regional Distribution
Dialect Coverage
Inclusivity

Provenance

Source URL
https://huggingface.co/datasets/castorini/afriberta-corpus
Fetch Timestamp
11 Jun 2026
Content Hash
d83da9653ef2a5f823c3693a28018e3009464522

Audit Log

Record indexed from Hugging Face

11 Jun 2026

Source status: Active

11 Jun 2026

Other Copies

The same resource, also published at these locations. It is counted once.

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afriberta-corpus

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