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Masakhane MT - Bambara (mafand)

Basaa(bas)TextMTCentral Africa
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Dataset Info

Language
Basaa (bas)
Modality
Text
Domain
News
Size
1K<n<10K
Institution
Masakhane NLP
Last Updated
13 May 2026

License & Access

SPDX identifierCC-BY 4.0

Open — attribution required; commercial use allowed.

RedistributionYes

PII RISK

Unknown risk

Full Record

28 of 46 fields stated

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Registry columns (22/27)

iso code
bas
Dataset name
Masakhane MT - Bambara (mafand)
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
1K<n<10KderivedHugging Face card: size_categories
License
CC-BY 4.0
Open Access
Open
Source Repository
Other
Year Published
2021
Creator/Author(s)
Masakhane NLP
Funder/Partner
Other (Research Community)
Dialect Coverage
Standard
Gender Balance
Not stated
Speaker Count
Not stated
Annotation Type
Human
Status
Active
Has Datasheet
No
PII Risk
Not stated
Consent Verified
Not stated
Verified By
David
Date Indexed
2026-05-13
Notes / Flags
Parallel translation corpus for Bambara included in the Masakhane MT (mafand) dataset for NLP research.

Quality (DQI) (5/12)

Datasheet Fields Completed
Not stated
SPDX License ID
CC-BY-4.0
Redistribution Allowed?
Yes
Content Hash
b215cd3c701dd16e447a0a2132fb73181acd6c53derivedHugging Face card: commit sha
Submitted By
Not stated
Fetch Date
2026-05-13
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) (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%
Documentation79%
Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance
Regional Distribution
Dialect Coverage
Inclusivity

Provenance

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

Audit Log

Record indexed from Other

13 May 2026

Source status: Active

13 May 2026

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