MakerereNLP Text & Speech Corpus

Acholi(ach)TextMT, ASR, Sentiment, ClassificationEast Africa

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Dataset Info

Language

Acholi (ach)

Modality

Text

Domain

General

Size

200,000 target sentences (parallel); speech in progress

Institution

Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Lilian Wanzare et al. — Makerere University AI Lab

Last Updated

11 May 2026

License & Access

SPDX identifierUnknown

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RedistributionRestricted

PII RISK

Low risk

Full Record

24 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 (21/27)

iso code: ach
Dataset name: MakerereNLP Text & Speech Corpus
Modality: Text
Type: literature
Link: https://openreview.net/forum?id=SO-U99z4U-q
NLP Task: MT, ASR, Sentiment, Classification
Domain: General
Data Format: Not stated
Size Metric: Sentences
Size Value: 200,000 target sentences (parallel); speech in progress
License: Not stated
Open Access: Restricted
Source Repository: ACL-Anthology / Institutiona
Year Published: 2022
Creator/Author(s): Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Lilian Wanzare et al. — Makerere University AI Lab
Funder/Partner: Lacuna Fund / Masakhane
Dialect Coverage: Standard
Gender Balance: Not stated
Speaker Count: Not stated
Annotation Type: Human
Status: Active
Has Datasheet: No
PII Risk: Low
Consent Verified: Not stated
Verified By: Not stated
Date Indexed: 2026-05-11
Notes / Flags: Covers Luganda, Runyankore-Rukiga, Acholi, Lumasaba, Swahili