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mafand

Chewa(nya)NlptranslationEast Africa
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Dataset Info

Language
Chewa (nya)
Modality
Nlp
Domain
NLP (News)
Size
1K<n<10K n (samples)
Institution
nehahumbe
Last Updated
27 Oct 2026

License & Access

SPDX identifiercc-by-nc-4.0

Open with restrictions — attribution required; some commercial or derivative use limited.

RedistributionRestricted

PII RISK

Unknown risk

Full Record

25 of 46 fields stated

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Registry columns (17/27)

iso code
nya
Dataset name
mafand
Modality
Nlp
Type
dataset
Link
https://huggingface.co/datasets/nehahumbe/mafand
NLP Task
translation
Domain
NLP (News)
Data Format
Not stated
Size Metric
n (samples)
Size Value
1K<n<10K n (samples)
License
cc-by-nc-4.0
Open Access
Restricted
Source Repository
Hugging Face
Year Published
2026
Creator/Author(s)
nehahumbe
Funder/Partner
Masakhane
Dialect Coverage
Not stated
Gender Balance
Not stated
Speaker Count
Not stated
Annotation Type
Not stated
Status
Activederivedupdated or published within 3 years
Has Datasheet
Not stated
PII Risk
Not stated
Consent Verified
Not stated
Verified By
Not stated
Date Indexed
2026-10-27
Notes / Flags
Not stated

Quality (DQI) (6/12)

Datasheet Fields Completed
Not stated
SPDX License ID
CC-BY-NC-4.0
Redistribution Allowed?
Restricted
Content Hash
Not stated
Submitted By
hf_data pipeline (automated)
Fetch Date
2026-10-27
Last Updated Date
Not stated
Annotation Guidelines Available?
Not stated
IAA Score
Not stated
Cleaning Notes
Not stated
Benchmark Exists?
Yes
Benchmark Citation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09828

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/nehahumbe/mafand
Fetch Timestamp
27 Oct 2026
Content Hash
—

Audit Log

Record indexed from Hugging Face

27 Oct 2026

Source status: Active

27 Oct 2026

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