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license: apache-2.0
task_categories:
- text-classification
language:
- am
tags:
- news
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
---
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- **Curated by:** [Josiah Solomon]
- **Language(s) (NLP):** [Amharic]
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- **Repository:** [[More Information Needed](https://github.com/orgs/geeztypes)]

## Uses

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NLP, POS, NER

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NLP, POS, NER

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## Dataset Structure

Text file

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## Dataset Creation
Extracted using python and bs4

### Curation Rationale

Foundation work for Amharic NLP.

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### Source Data

https://amharic.voanews.com/

#### Data Collection and Processing

Extracted using python and bs4

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#### Who are the source data producers?
voanews.com

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