Published August 14, 2022 | Version v1

African News Corpus

  • 1. Saarland University

Description

This consist of a monolingual news corpus for 19 languages from various sources like VOA, BBC, isolezwe etc. 

- The BBC corpus (except for Yoruba) was extracted from the AfriBERTa corpus, please cite the AfriBERTa paper if you use it. A big thank you to Kelechi Ogueji for providing this corpus

- The VOA corpus was extracted from the MOT corpus, please cite the MOT paper if you use it. 

- The Isolezwe (xho, zul) was crawled as part of the Lacuna NER/POS project with Masakhane, please cite the MAFAND paper for that. 

- The nya data was part of the AI4D paper. 

- We thank Jonathan Mukiibi for providing the lug news corpus. 

- If you use the corpus for amh, hau, ibo, kin, lug, luo, pcm, swa, wol, yor, please cite our MAFT paper. We provide a description of the sources in the paper. 

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