NCHLT Afrikaans Annotated Text Corpus

Afrikaans(afr)TextLM, NER, POS, ChunkingSouthern Africa

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Dataset Info

Language

Afrikaans (afr)

Modality

Text

Domain

General

Size

49 million tokens

Institution

Bekker et al. — CTexT, North-West University

Last Updated

11 May 2026

License & Access

SPDX identifierCC-BY

Open — attribution required; commercial use allowed.

RedistributionYes

PII RISK

Low risk

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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 (22/27)

iso code: afr
Dataset name: NCHLT Afrikaans Annotated Text Corpus
Modality: Text
Type: dataset
Link: https://repo.sadilar.org/handle/20.500.12185/397
NLP Task: LM, NER, POS, Chunking
Domain: General
Data Format: Not stated
Size Metric: Tokens
Size Value: 49 million tokens
License: CC-BY
Open Access: Open
Source Repository: SADiLaR / Institutional
Year Published: 2014
Creator/Author(s): Bekker et al. — CTexT, North-West University
Funder/Partner: SADiLaR / Dept of Arts & Culture
Dialect Coverage: Standard
Gender Balance: Not stated
Speaker Count: Not stated
Annotation Type: Automatic
Status: Archived
Has Datasheet: No
PII Risk: Low
Consent Verified: Not stated
Verified By: Not stated
Date Indexed: 2026-05-11
Notes / Flags: Annotated for POS, NER, phrase chunks; used in multiple benchmarks