2 text classification datasets containing news articles in Kinyarwanda and Kirundi. The collection provides labeled examples for training models on low-resource African languages across various news categories.
Use Cases
- Train a multi-class classifier using the news text and category labels
- Evaluate cross-lingual transfer learning between the Kinyarwanda and Kirundi subsets
- Conduct linguistic analysis on the news text to identify dialectal differences between the two languages
Strengths
- Includes news articles in Kinyarwanda (Kinnews) and Kirundi (Kirnews)
- Features categorical labels for news classification tasks
- Provides text data for two mutually intelligible Bantu languages