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masakhanews

Luganda(lug)Texttext-classificationEast Africa

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Dataset Info

Language

Luganda (lug)

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: lug
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%

Documentation82%

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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