README.md

metadata

language:
  - ku
  - en
license: cc-by-4.0
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K
task_categories:
  - text-classification
  - translation
pretty_name: Kurdish News Dataset Headlines (KNDH)
dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: label
      dtype: string
    - name: text
      dtype: string
    - name: text-english
      dtype: string
    - name: url
      dtype: string
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_bytes: 17100983
      num_examples: 50000
  download_size: 7349775
  dataset_size: 17100983
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path: data/train-*
tags:
  - kurdish
  - translation
  - news

Dataset Card for Kurdish News Dataset Headlines (KNDH)

Summary

Description from the paper: the Kurdish language belongs to the Indo-Iranian family of Indo-European languages. It is well-known to be a close relative to the Persian language. The speakers span the intersections of Iran, Turkey, Iraq, and Syria. The Kurdish language is one of the official languages in Iraq and has regional status in Iran. The language has 40 million speakers [2,11].

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("nazimali/kurdish-news-headlines-classification", split="train")
ds

Output:

Dataset({
    features: ['label', 'text', 'text-english', 'url'],
    num_rows: 50000
})

Data Cleaning

In the paper they describe the data process in detail. There are 2 versions of the original dataset, list of changes I made:

• Renamed the original column names so it's easier to read & process
• Merged the column url from version 1 and columns label, text, text-english from version 2
• Excluded 2 pre-processed text columns from version 2

Dataset Sources

• Paper Kurdish News Dataset Headlines (KNDH) through Multiclass Classification

Dataset Structure

• 50,000 rows
• 5 unique labels
  • sport, health, science & technology, social, economic
  • Each label contains 10,000 rows

	label	text	text-english	url
count	50000	50000	50000	48832
unique	5	41912	41008	43891

Citation

• Version 1:

  Badawi, Soran;
  Mohammed, ARI (2022),
  "Kurdish News Dataset Headlines (KNDH) through Multiclass Classification",
  Mendeley Data,
  V1,
  doi: 10.17632/kb7vvkg2th.1
  

• Version 2:

  Badawi, Soran;
  Mohammed, ARI (2023),
  "Kurdish News Dataset Headlines (KNDH) through Multiclass Classification",
  Mendeley Data,
  V2,
  doi: 10.17632/kb7vvkg2th.2