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NaijaSenti - Nigerian Pidgin Sentiment

Nigerian Pidgin(pcm)TextSentimentWest Africa
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Dataset Info

Language
Nigerian Pidgin (pcm)
Modality
Text
Domain
Social Media (Twitter)
Size
30000
Institution
Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan et al. (HausaNLP / Lacuna Fund)
Last Updated
11 Jun 2026

License & Access

SPDX identifierCC-BY-NC-SA-4.0

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

RedistributionYes

PII RISK

Low risk

Full Record

34 of 46 fields stated

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Registry columns (25/27)

iso code
pcm
Dataset name
NaijaSenti - Nigerian Pidgin Sentiment
Modality
Text
Type
dataset
Link
https://huggingface.co/datasets/HausaNLP/NaijaSenti-Twitter
NLP Task
Sentiment
Domain
Social Media (Twitter)
Data Format
jsonderivedHugging Face card: file formats
Size Metric
Sentences
Size Value
30000
License
CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
Open Access
Open
Source Repository
Hugging Face
Year Published
2022
Creator/Author(s)
Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan et al. (HausaNLP / Lacuna Fund)
Funder/Partner
Lacuna Fund
Dialect Coverage
Standard (code-mixed)
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
2026-06-11
Notes / Flags
NaijaSenti: First large-scale human-annotated Twitter sentiment dataset for Nigerian Pidgin (+Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba). ~30,000 annotated tweets in Nigerian Pidgin …

Quality (DQI) (6/12)

Datasheet Fields Completed
Not stated
SPDX License ID
CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
Redistribution Allowed?
Yes
Content Hash
a3d0415a828178edf3466246f49cfcd83b946ab3derivedHugging Face card: commit sha
Submitted By
hf_data pipeline (automated)
Fetch Date
2026-06-11
Last Updated Date
2023-06-16derivedHugging 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) (3/7)

Gender Distribution
Not stated
Region Coverage
Nigeria
Region Distribution
Not stated
Age Range Coverage
Not stated
Register
Spoken
Marginalized Group Note
Not stated
Demographic Fields Reported Count
1

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/HausaNLP/NaijaSenti-Twitter
Fetch Timestamp
11 Jun 2026
Content Hash
a3d0415a828178edf3466246f49cfcd83b946ab3

Audit Log

Record indexed from Hugging Face

11 Jun 2026

Source status: Active

11 Jun 2026

Also Available In

This is the same multilingual corpus, sliced for other languages the platform indexes it under.

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text-classification · NLP (Social Media) domain · HausaNLP

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text-classification · NLP (Social Media) domain · HausaNLP

4 languagesYoruba(yor)Texttext-classification
HUHugging Face
Restricted27 Oct 2026

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