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MAFAND-MT (Chichewa/en-nya pair)

Chewa(nya)TextMTEast Africa
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Dataset Info

Language
Chewa (nya)
Modality
Text
Domain
News
Size
1487
Institution
Masakhane NLP (David Adelani et al.)
Last Updated
3 Aug 2026

License & Access

SPDX identifierCC-BY-4.0

Open — attribution required; commercial use allowed.

RedistributionYes

PII RISK

Unknown risk

Full Record

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iso code
nya
Dataset name
MAFAND-MT (Chichewa/en-nya pair)
Modality
Text
Type
dataset
Link
https://huggingface.co/datasets/masakhane/mafand
NLP Task
MT
Domain
News
Data Format
Not stated
Size Metric
Sentences
Size Value
1487
License
CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
Open
Source Repository
Hugging Face
Year Published
2022
Creator/Author(s)
Masakhane NLP (David Adelani et al.)
Funder/Partner
Masakhane
Dialect Coverage
Standard
Gender Balance
Not stated
Speaker Count
Not stated
Annotation Type
Human
Status
Active
Has Datasheet
Yes
PII Risk
Not stated
Consent Verified
Yes
Verified By
Not stated
Date Indexed
2026-08-03
Notes / Flags
Confirmed directly: the MAFAND-MT news-domain MT dataset includes an en-nya pair (dev=483, test=1004 sentences, no train split) - genuinely covers Chichewa, con…

Quality (DQI) (6/12)

Datasheet Fields Completed
Not stated
SPDX License ID
CC-BY-4.0
Redistribution Allowed?
Yes
Content Hash
b215cd3c701dd16e447a0a2132fb73181acd6c53derivedHugging Face card: commit sha
Submitted By
hf_data pipeline (automated)
Fetch Date
2026-08-03
Last Updated Date
2023-09-11derivedHugging 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) (2/7)

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

Readiness Score Breakdown

5/5
Data Coverage100%
Model Availability100%
Benchmarks100%
Documentation85%
Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance
Regional Distribution
Dialect Coverage
Inclusivity

Provenance

Source URL
https://huggingface.co/datasets/masakhane/mafand
Fetch Timestamp
3 Aug 2026
Content Hash
b215cd3c701dd16e447a0a2132fb73181acd6c53

Audit Log

Record indexed from Hugging Face

3 Aug 2026

Source status: Active

3 Aug 2026

Other Copies

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mafand

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22 languages2 copiesChewa(nya)Nlptranslation
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Restricted27 Oct 2026

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