metadata

license: cc-by-sa-4.0
datasets:
  - sinhala-nlp/NSINA
  - sinhala-nlp/NSINA-Media
language:
  - si

Sinhala News Media Identification

This is a text classification task created with the NSINA dataset. This dataset is also released with the same license as NSINA.

Data

Data can be loaded into pandas dataframes using the following code.

from datasets import Dataset
from datasets import load_dataset

train = Dataset.to_pandas(load_dataset('sinhala-nlp/NSINA-Media', split='train'))
test = Dataset.to_pandas(load_dataset('sinhala-nlp/NSINA-Media', split='test'))

Citation

If you are using the dataset or the models, please cite the following paper.

@inproceedings{Nsina2024,
author={Hettiarachchi, Hansi and Premasiri, Damith and Uyangodage, Lasitha and Ranasinghe, Tharindu},
title={{NSINA: A News Corpus for Sinhala}},
booktitle={The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)},
year={2024},
month={May},
}