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license: cc-by-sa-4.0 |
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# NSINa - A {N}ews Corpus for {Sin}hal{a} |
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This repository introduces **NSINA**, a comprehensive news corpus of over 500,000 articles from popular Sinhala news websites. Alongside **NSINA**, with different subsets, we also introduce three Sinhala NLP tasks [(1) News Media Identification](https://github.com/Sinhala-NLP/Sinhala-News-Media-Identification) [(2) News Category Prediction](https://github.com/Sinhala-NLP/Sinhala-News-Category-Prediction) and [(3) News Headline Generation](https://github.com/Sinhala-NLP/Sinhala-Headline-Generation). The release of **NSINA** aims to provide a solution to challenges in adapting large language models to Sinhala, offering valuable benchmarks and resources for improving NLP in the Sinhala language. **NSINA** is the largest news corpus for Sinhala. |
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## Data Collection |
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For **version 1.0**, we collected news articles from ten news media sites in Sri Lanka. The following table has the details. |
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| Adaderana *( <https://sinhala.adaderana.lk/> )* | 83918 | |
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| ITN News *( <https://www.itnnews.lk/> )* | 30777 | |
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| Lankatruth *( <https://lankatruth.com/si/> )* | 48180 | |
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| Divaina *( <https://divaina.lk/> )* | 26043 | |
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| Hiru News *( <https://www.hirunews.lk/> )* | 130729 | |
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| Sinhala News LK *( <https://sinhala.news.lk/> )* | 20371 | |
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| Lankadeepa *( <https://www.lankadeepa.lk/> )* | 141663 | |
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| Vikalpa *( <https://www.vikalpa.org/> )* | 14309 | |
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| Dinamina *( <https://www.dinamina.lk/> )* | 7642 | |
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| Siyatha *( <https://siyathanews.lk/> )* | 3300 | |
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| **Total** | **506932** | |
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One of the .json files is shown below. |
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```json |
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{ |
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"Source": "hirunews", |
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"Timestamp": "Saturday, 02 May 2020 - 7:38", |
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"Headline": "ශ්රී ලංකා එංගලන්ත ක්රිකට් තරගාවලියට නව කාලසටහනක්", |
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"News Content": "කොවිඩ් -19 ගෝලීය වසංගතය හේතුවෙන් අතරමඟ දී අත්හිටුවනු ලැබූ එංගලන්ත ක්රිකට් පිළේ ශ්රී ලංකා සංචාරය සඳහා නව කාලසටහනක් සකස් කර තිබෙනවා. ඒ අනුව ලබන වසරේ ජනවාරි මාසයේ එංගලන්ත පිළ නැවතත් ශ්රී ලංකාවට පැමිණීමට නියමිත බවයි ශ්රී ලංකා ක්රිකට් ප්රධාන විධායක ඈෂ්ලි ද සිල්වා ප්රකාශ කළේ. පසුගිය මාර්තු මාසයේ දිවයිනට පැමිණි එංගලන්ත කණ්ඩායම කොරෝනා වෛරස් ගෝලීය වසංගතය හේතුවෙන් දින 10කට පසු යළි සිය රට බලා නික්මුණේ පළමු ටෙස්ට් තරඟය ආරම්භවීමට සතියක් තිබියදියි.", |
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"URL": "https://www.hirunews.lk/sports/239889/ශ්රී-ලංකා-එංගලන්ත-ක්රිකට්-තරගාවලියට-නව-කාලසටහනක්", |
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"Category": "Sports", |
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"Parent URL": "https://www.hirunews.lk/sports/all-news.php?pageID=100" |
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} |
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``` |
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## Data |
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All the .json files mentioned above were concatenated to create the final dataset. **NSINA** is available in [HuggingFace](https://huggingface.co/datasets/sinhala-nlp/NSINA) and can be downloaded using the following code. |
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```python |
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from datasets import Dataset |
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from datasets import load_dataset |
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nsina = Dataset.to_pandas(load_dataset('sinhala-nlp/NSINA', split='train')) |
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``` |
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## Citation |
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If you are using the dataset or the models, please cite the following paper. |
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~~~ |
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@inproceedings{Nsina2024, |
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author={Hettiarachchi, Hansi and Premasiri, Damith and Uyangodage, Lasitha and Ranasinghe, Tharindu}, |
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title={{NSINA: A News Corpus for Sinhala}}, |
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booktitle={The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)}, |
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year={2024}, |
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month={May}, |
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} |
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~~~ |
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