Datasets
MasakhaNER 2.0 vs MasakhaPOS
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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 / CC-BY-NC 4.0
Free / CC-BY-NC 4.0
Verified
Verified
Verified
Last verified
24 Jun 2026
24 Jun 2026
Tags
nlp, ner, named-entity-recognition, african-languages, token-classification
nlp, african-languages, token-classification, pos-tagging, ud-tags
Summary
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.
Part-of-speech tagging dataset for 20 African languages (incl. Nigerian Pidgin, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba) using Universal Dependencies tags, with per-language train/validation/test splits. Built by the Masakhane community.