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NaijaSenti-Twitter

Yoruba(yor)Texttext-classificationWest Africa
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Dataset Info

Language
Yoruba (yor)
Modality
Text
Domain
NLP (Social Media)
Size
100K<n<1M n (samples)
Institution
HausaNLP
Last Updated
27 Oct 2026

License & Access

SPDX identifiercc-by-nc-sa-4.0

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

RedistributionRestricted

PII RISK

Low risk

Full Record

30 of 46 fields stated

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Registry columns (21/27)

iso code
yor
Dataset name
NaijaSenti-Twitter
Modality
Text
Type
dataset
Link
https://huggingface.co/datasets/HausaNLP/NaijaSenti-Twitter
NLP Task
text-classification
Domain
NLP (Social Media)
Data Format
jsonderivedHugging Face card: file formats
Size Metric
n (samples)
Size Value
100K<n<1M n (samples)
License
cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
Open Access
Restricted
Source Repository
Hugging Face
Year Published
2023
Creator/Author(s)
HausaNLP
Funder/Partner
Lacuna Fund
Dialect Coverage
Code-switchedderivedHugging Face card: "NaijaSenti is the first large-scale human-annotated Twitter sentiment dataset for the four most widely spoken languages in Nigeria — Hausa, Igbo, Nigerian-Pidgin, and Yorùbá — consisting of around 30…"
Gender Balance
Not stated
Speaker Count
Not stated
Annotation Type
Human
Status
Not stated
Has Datasheet
NoderivedHugging Face card: no README or a description under 300 characters
PII Risk
LowderivedHugging Face card: "We anonymized the tweets by replacing all @mentions by @user and removed all URLs."
Consent Verified
Not stated
Verified By
Not stated
Date Indexed
2026-10-27
Notes / Flags
Not stated

Quality (DQI) (6/12)

Datasheet Fields Completed
Not stated
SPDX License ID
CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0
Redistribution Allowed?
Restricted
Content Hash
a3d0415a828178edf3466246f49cfcd83b946ab3derivedHugging Face card: commit sha
Submitted By
hf_data pipeline (automated)
Fetch Date
2026-10-27
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%
Documentation75%
Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance
Regional Distribution
Dialect Coverage
Inclusivity

Provenance

Source URL
https://huggingface.co/datasets/HausaNLP/NaijaSenti-Twitter
Fetch Timestamp
27 Oct 2026
Content Hash
a3d0415a828178edf3466246f49cfcd83b946ab3

Audit Log

Record indexed from Hugging Face

27 Oct 2026

Source status: Unknown

27 Oct 2026

Also Available In

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

dataset

NaijaSenti-Twitter

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

4 languagesHausa(hau)Texttext-classification
HUHugging Face
Restricted27 Oct 2026
dataset

NaijaSenti Twitter

Nigerian language sentiment dataset including Igbo

4 languagesIgbo(ibo)TextSentiment
HUHugging Face
Open30 Jun 2026
dataset

NaijaSenti - Nigerian Pidgin Sentiment

NaijaSenti: First large-scale human-annotated Twitter sentiment dataset for Nigerian Pidgin (+Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba). ~30,000 annotated tweets in Nigerian Pidg…

4 languagesNigerian Pidgin(pcm)TextSentiment
HUHugging Face
Open11 Jun 2026

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