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MasakhaNEWS

Nigerian Pidgin(pcm)TextClassificationWest Africa
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Dataset Info

Language
Nigerian Pidgin (pcm)
Modality
Text
Domain
News
Size
1K<n<10K n (samples)
Institution
Masakhane (Adelani and others)
Last Updated
24 Jul 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

31 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 (24/27)

iso code
pcm
Dataset name
MasakhaNEWS
Modality
Text
Type
dataset
Link
https://huggingface.co/datasets/masakhane/masakhanews
NLP Task
Classification
Domain
News
Data Format
csv
Size Metric
Files
Size Value
1K<n<10K n (samples)
License
CC-BY-4.0-NC
Open Access
Open
Source Repository
Hugging Face
Year Published
2023
Creator/Author(s)
Masakhane (Adelani 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
News topic classification across 16 African languages. Language list confirmed 2026-07-24 via the MTEB derivative subsets. Per-language row counts not yet read,…

Quality (DQI) (6/12)

Datasheet Fields Completed
Not stated
SPDX License ID
CC-BY-NC-4.0
Redistribution Allowed?
Yes
Content Hash
fa3b5fff8a91d187bf0c5900a39c4271d08cf7federivedHugging Face card: commit sha
Submitted By
hf_data pipeline (automated)
Fetch Date
2026-07-24
Last Updated Date
2025-12-03derivedHugging 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%
Documentation77%
Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance
Regional Distribution
Dialect Coverage
Inclusivity

Provenance

Source URL
https://huggingface.co/datasets/masakhane/masakhanews
Fetch Timestamp
24 Jul 2026
Content Hash
fa3b5fff8a91d187bf0c5900a39c4271d08cf7fe

Audit Log

Record indexed from Hugging Face

24 Jul 2026

Source status: Active

24 Jul 2026

Other Copies

The same resource, also published at these locations. It is counted once.

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masakhanews

Data format: parquet

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