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masakhanews

Hausa(hau)Texttext-classificationWest Africa
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Dataset Info

Language
Hausa (hau)
Modality
Text
Domain
NLP (News, Health)
Size
10K<n<100K
Institution
mteb
Last Updated
27 Oct 2026

License & Access

SPDX identifiercc-by-nc-4.0

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

RedistributionRestricted

PII RISK

Unknown risk

Full Record

27 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 (20/27)

iso code
hau
Dataset name
masakhanews
Modality
Text
Type
dataset
Link
https://huggingface.co/datasets/mteb/masakhanews
NLP Task
text-classification
Domain
NLP (News, Health)
Data Format
parquet
Size Metric
n (samples)
Size Value
10K<n<100KderivedHugging Face card: size_categories
License
cc-by-nc-4.0
Open Access
Restricted
Source Repository
Hugging Face
Year Published
2024
Creator/Author(s)
mteb
Funder/Partner
Not stated
Dialect Coverage
Not stated
Gender Balance
Not stated
Speaker Count
Not stated
Annotation Type
Automatic
Status
Activederivedupdated or published within 3 years
Has Datasheet
YesderivedHugging Face card: README with a description of 300+ characters
PII Risk
Not stated
Consent Verified
Not stated
Verified By
Not stated
Date Indexed
2026-10-27
Notes / Flags
Data format: parquet

Quality (DQI) (6/12)

Datasheet Fields Completed
Not stated
SPDX License ID
CC-BY-NC-4.0
Redistribution Allowed?
Restricted
Content Hash
6ab03a08a7e5341de9c6f985aed5d6eff3efe54ederivedHugging Face card: commit sha
Submitted By
hf_data pipeline (automated)
Fetch Date
2026-10-27
Last Updated Date
2026-02-24derivedHugging 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/mteb/masakhanews
Fetch Timestamp
27 Oct 2026
Content Hash
6ab03a08a7e5341de9c6f985aed5d6eff3efe54e

Audit Log

Record indexed from Hugging Face

27 Oct 2026

Source status: Active

27 Oct 2026

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