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MasakhaNER 2.0

Swahili(swh)TextNEREast Africa
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Dataset Info

Language
Swahili (swh)
Modality
Text
Domain
News
Size
9420
Institution
Masakhane (Adelani, Neubig, Ruder, Rijhwani, Beukman, Palen-Michel, Lignos, Alabi, Muhammad, Nabende, Dione and others)
Last Updated
24 Jul 2026

License & Access

SPDX identifierCC-BY-4.0-NC (see flag)

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

RedistributionYes

PII RISK

Low risk

Full Record

29 of 46 fields stated

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Registry columns (23/27)

iso code
swh
Dataset name
MasakhaNER 2.0
Modality
Text
Type
dataset
Link
https://huggingface.co/datasets/masakhane/masakhaner2
NLP Task
NER
Domain
News
Data Format
Not stated
Size Metric
Files
Size Value
9420
License
CC-BY-4.0-NC (see flag)
Open Access
Open
Source Repository
Hugging Face
Year Published
2022
Creator/Author(s)
Masakhane (Adelani, Neubig, Ruder, Rijhwani, Beukman, Palen-Michel, Lignos, Alabi, Muhammad, Nabende, Dione and others)
Funder/Partner
Masakhane
Dialect Coverage
Standard
Gender Balance
Not stated
Speaker Count
Not stated
Annotation Type
Human
Status
Active
Has Datasheet
Yes
PII Risk
Low
Consent Verified
Not stated
Verified By
Gideon George
Date Indexed
2026-07-24
Notes / Flags
Row count from the Hugging Face viewer 2026-07-24. PER, ORG, LOC and DATE entities across 20 African languages. Paper arXiv:2210.12391. Licence discrepancy: the…

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
2026-07-24
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 Coverage100%
Model Availability100%
Benchmarks0%
Documentation64%
Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance
Regional Distribution
Dialect Coverage
Inclusivity

Provenance

Source URL
https://huggingface.co/datasets/masakhane/masakhaner2
Fetch Timestamp
24 Jul 2026
Content Hash
60512e89e68841b6b5ed1be59caf97b169f0d27a

Audit Log

Record indexed from Hugging Face

24 Jul 2026

Source status: Active

24 Jul 2026

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