task_categories:text-classification size_categories:1K<n<10K language:sw license:mit region:us
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license: mit
task_categories:
- text-classification
language:
- sw
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
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# Overview
This dataset contains offensive and non-offensive sentences. The data was scraped from JamiiForums using a prepared wordlist.
The dataset contains sentences that consists of swahili abusive words (in the wordlist) but does not contain sarcastic abuse.
## Dataset details
The dataset is divided into train, evaluation and test datasets. The training dataset consists of 4954 sentences, evaluation dataset
consists of 990 sentences and the test dataset consists of 660 sentences.
### Dataset annotations
- 0: non-offensive
- 1: offensive
