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language:
  - sw
  - xh
  - zu
  - ha
  - yo

Dataset Card for Inkuba-Mono dataset

Dataset Details

Dataset Description

Collected by: Lelapa AI - Fundamental Research Team
Shared by: Lelapa AI
Language(s) (NLP): isiZulu, Yoruba, Swahili, isiXhosa and Hausa
License: CC BY-NC 4.0

Dataset Sources

We collected monolingual datasets to train our InkubaLM for 5 African languages from the following public repositories.
Paper: InkubaLM

Dataset statistics

Language	Number of sentences(in Million)	Token
Hausa	12	359 M
Yoruba	2	77 M
Swahili	58	1B
isiZulu	10	207M
isiXhosa	4	79M

Uses

This dataset can be utilized to train language models and perform other tasks that require monolingual datasets.

How to Use

from datasets import load_dataset

data = load_dataset("lelapa/Inkuba-Mono", "yor")

Citation

@article{tonja2024inkubalm,
  title={InkubaLM: A small language model for low-resource African languages},
  author={Tonja, Atnafu Lambebo and Dossou, Bonaventure FP and Ojo, Jessica and Rajab, Jenalea and Thior, Fadel and Wairagala, Eric Peter and Anuoluwapo, Aremu and Moiloa, Pelonomi and Abbott, Jade and Marivate, Vukosi and others},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.17024},
  year={2024}
}

Dataset Card Authors

Lelapa AI - Fundamental Research Team

Dataset Card Contact

Lelapa AI