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AfriMMLU (IrokoBench) vs MasakhaNER 2.0
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Category
Datasets
Datasets
Type
Language / NLP
Language / NLP
Country
🌍 Pan-African
🌍 Pan-African
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Free / open
Free / CC-BY-NC 4.0
Verified
Unverified
Verified
Last verified
5 Jul 2026
5 Jul 2026
Tags
nlp, african-languages, question-answering, evaluation, benchmark
nlp, ner, named-entity-recognition, african-languages, token-classification
Summary
Human-translated multiple-choice question-answering evaluation benchmark covering 16 to 17 African languages plus English and French, derived from a subset of MMLU across subjects like maths, geography and law. Distributed as CSV and parquet on HuggingFace and forms part of the IrokoBench suite (MMLU, MGSM, XNLI). Licensed Apache 2.0.
Largest high-quality named-entity-recognition corpus for 20 African languages (incl. Nigerian Pidgin, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba) with PER/ORG/LOC/DATE tags over news-domain text, totaling ~152,786 rows. Built by the Masakhane community.