LUO LANGUAGE DATASET FOR NER

About

This repo contains LUO corpus for Named Entity Recognition. The text comes from the news domain and was scrapped from Radio Ramogi. I did this as part of the Masakhane NER project

NLP, NER , Masakhane

Table of Contents

• About Dataset
• Repo Structure
• Contributing
• Team
• Support
• License

About Dataset

The sentences were obtained from Ramogi FM website: https://rmsradio.co.ke/brands/ramogi-fm/

Dates published: 1/9/2018 - 10/3/2021. Get the most updated information from README.txt

Categories

Get the most updated information from README.txt

Repo Structure

This repo contains 3 main files of interest.

1. README.md

This file

2. README.txt

Contains statistical description of the data- News domains, publication and collection dates

3. LUO.txt

Contains a cleaned compilation the text

The rest are just files used in the collection and cleaning process.

Clone

• Clone this repo to your local machine using https://github.com/Pogayo/Luo-News-Dataset

Contributing

To get started...

Step 1

• Option 1

  • 🍴 Fork this repo!

• Option 2

  • 👯 Clone this repo to your local machine using https://github.com/Pogayo/Luo-News-Dataset

Step 2

• HACK AWAY! 🔨🔨🔨

Step 3

• 🔃 Create a new pull request

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Team

Perez Ogayo

Verrah Otiende

• We are a small team. Join us and let's put Luo on the NLP Map together!

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FAQ

• How do I do collect the sentences?
  • Go to the Ramogi Website . Typically, you will only find the latest news.
  • If you have exhausted the latest news, go to the web archive to get links of earlier news.

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Support me

I am in the process of setting up a wallet. Feel free to reach out to me so that I can give you other payment details in the meantime.

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License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.