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- license: cc-by-sa-4.0
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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+ license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
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+ tags:
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+ - sentiment analysis, Twitter, tweets
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+ - stopwords
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+ multilinguality:
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+ - monolingual
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+ - multilingual
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+ language:
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+ - hau
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+ - ibo
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+ - yor
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+ pretty_name: NaijaStopwords
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+ # Naija-Lexicons
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+ Naija-Lexicons is a part of the [Naija-Senti](https://huggingface.co/datasets/HausaNLP/NaijaSenti-Twitter) project. It is a list of collected stopwords from the four most widely spoken languages in Nigeria — Hausa, Igbo, Nigerian-Pidgin, and Yorùbá.
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+ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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+ ## Dataset Description
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+ - **Homepage:** https://github.com/hausanlp/NaijaSenti/tree/main/data/stopwords
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+ - **Repository:** [GitHub](https://github.com/hausanlp/NaijaSenti/tree/main/data/stopwords)
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+ - **Paper:** [NaijaSenti: A Nigerian Twitter Sentiment Corpus for Multilingual Sentiment Analysis](https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.63/)
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+ - **Leaderboard:** N/A
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+ - **Point of Contact:** [Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad]([email protected])
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+ ### Languages
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+ 3 most indigenous Nigerian languages
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+ * Hausa (hau)
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+ * Igbo (ibo)
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+ * Yoruba (yor)
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+ ## Dataset Structure
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+ ### Data Instances
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+ List of lexicons instances in each of the 3 languages with their sentiment labels.
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+ ```
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+ {
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+ "word": "string",
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+ "label": "string"
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+ }
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+ ```
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+ ### How to use it
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+ ```python
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+ from datasets import load_dataset
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+ # you can load specific languages (e.g., Hausa). This download manually created and translated lexicons.
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+ ds = load_dataset("HausaNLP/Naija-Lexicons", "hau")
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+ # you can load specific languages (e.g., Hausa). You may also specify the split you want to downloaf
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+ ds = load_dataset("HausaNLP/Naija-Lexicons", "hau", split = "manual")
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+ ```
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+ ## Additional Information
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+ ### Dataset Curators
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+ * Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad
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+ * Idris Abdulmumin
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+ * Ibrahim Said Ahmad
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+ * Bello Shehu Bello
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+ ### Licensing Information
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+ This Naija-Lexicons dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution BY-NC-SA 4.0 International License
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+ ### Citation Information
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+ ```
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+ @inproceedings{muhammad-etal-2022-naijasenti,
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+ title = "{N}aija{S}enti: A {N}igerian {T}witter Sentiment Corpus for Multilingual Sentiment Analysis",
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+ author = "Muhammad, Shamsuddeen Hassan and
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+ Adelani, David Ifeoluwa and
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+ Ruder, Sebastian and
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+ Ahmad, Ibrahim Sa{'}id and
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+ Abdulmumin, Idris and
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+ Bello, Bello Shehu and
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+ Choudhury, Monojit and
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+ Emezue, Chris Chinenye and
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+ Abdullahi, Saheed Salahudeen and
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+ Aremu, Anuoluwapo and
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+ Jorge, Al{\'\i}pio and
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+ Brazdil, Pavel",
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+ booktitle = "Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
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+ month = jun,
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+ year = "2022",
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+ address = "Marseille, France",
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+ publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
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+ url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.63",
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+ pages = "590--602",
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+ }
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+ ```
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+ ### Contributions
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+ > This work was carried out with support from Lacuna Fund, an initiative co-founded by The Rockefeller Foundation, Google.org, and Canada’s International Development Research Centre. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of Lacuna Fund, its Steering Committee, its funders, or Meridian Institute.