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MasakhaNER 2.0 - Tsonga NER

Tsonga(tso)TextNERSouthern Africa

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Dataset Info

Language

Tsonga (tso)

Modality

Text

Domain

News/General

Size

1K<n<10K

Institution

Adelani, David Ifeoluwa et al. (Masakhane)

Last Updated

25 Jun 2026

License & Access

SPDX identifierCC-BY-4.0-NC

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

RedistributionYes

PII RISK

Low risk

Full Record

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iso code: tso
Dataset name: MasakhaNER 2.0 - Tsonga NER
Modality: Text
Type: dataset
Link: https://huggingface.co/datasets/masakhane/masakhaner2
NLP Task: NER
Domain: News/General
Data Format: Not stated
Size Metric: Sentences
Size Value: 1K<n<10KderivedHugging Face card: size_categories
License: CC-BY-4.0-NC
Open Access: Open
Source Repository: Hugging Face
Year Published: 2022
Creator/Author(s): Adelani, David Ifeoluwa et al. (Masakhane)
Funder/Partner: Lacuna Fund / 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: Yes
Verified By: Emmanuel
Date Indexed: 2026-06-25
Notes / Flags: Tsonga/Xitsonga (tso) included in MasakhaNER 2.0, a 20-language African NER benchmark. ~12M speakers. Official language of South Africa. Used in EMNLP 2022 Masa…

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: 2026-06-25
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%

Documentation74%

Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance

Regional Distribution

Dialect Coverage

Inclusivity

Provenance

Source URL

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

Fetch Timestamp

25 Jun 2026

Content Hash

60512e89e68841b6b5ed1be59caf97b169f0d27a

Audit Log

Record indexed from Hugging Face

25 Jun 2026

Source status: Active

25 Jun 2026

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