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MasakhaNER 2.0 – Ghomálá' NER Dataset

Ghomálá'(bbj)TextNERCentral Africa

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Dataset Info

Language

Ghomálá' (bbj)

Modality

Text

Domain

News

Size

4830

Institution

David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Graham Neubig, Sebastian Ruder et al. (Masakhane community)

Last Updated

22 May 2025

License & Access

SPDX identifierCC-BY-NC-4.0

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

RedistributionYes

PII RISK

Low risk

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iso code: bbj
Dataset name: MasakhaNER 2.0 – Ghomálá' NER Dataset
Modality: Text
Type: dataset
Link: https://huggingface.co/datasets/masakhane/masakhaner2
NLP Task: NER
Domain: News
Data Format: Not stated
Size Metric: Sentences
Size Value: 4830
License: CC-BY-NC-4.0
Open Access: Open
Source Repository: Hugging Face
Year Published: 2022
Creator/Author(s): David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Graham Neubig, Sebastian Ruder et al. (Masakhane community)
Funder/Partner: Lacuna Fund
Dialect Coverage: Standard
Gender Balance: Not stated
Speaker Count: Not stated
Annotation Type: Human
Status: Active
Has Datasheet: Yes
PII Risk: Low
Consent Verified: Yes
Verified By: Not stated
Date Indexed: 2025-05-22
Notes / Flags: 4,830 sentences (train 3,384 / dev 483 / test 966); PER/ORG/LOC/DATE; news source: MAFAND-MT; EMNLP 2022 arXiv:2210.12391. First NER resource for Ghomálá'.

Quality (DQI) (5/12)

Datasheet Fields Completed: Not stated
SPDX License ID: CC-BY-NC-4.0
Redistribution Allowed?: Yes
Content Hash: 60512e89e68841b6b5ed1be59caf97b169f0d27aderivedHugging Face card: commit sha
Submitted By: Not stated
Fetch Date: 2025-05-22
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

4/5

Data Coverage95%

Model Availability100%

Benchmarks0%

Documentation83%

Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance

Regional Distribution

Dialect Coverage

Inclusivity

Provenance

Source URL

https://huggingface.co/datasets/masakhane/masakhaner2

Fetch Timestamp

22 May 2025

Content Hash

60512e89e68841b6b5ed1be59caf97b169f0d27a

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Record indexed from Hugging Face

22 May 2025

Source status: Active

22 May 2025

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