Upload mBERT Sepedi sentiment classifier

README.md

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+---
+language:
+- nso
+license: apache-2.0
+tags:
+- text-classification
+- sentiment-analysis
+- sepedi
+- northern-sotho
+- african-languages
+- community-sovereignty
+pipeline_tag: text-classification
+---
+
+# Sepedi Sentiment Classifier v1.0
+
+**Developer:** TSEBO SOVEREIGN TECH | Licensed to Sediba AI NPC  
+**Language:** Sepedi / Northern Sotho (nso)  
+**Task:** Sentiment Classification  
+**License:** Apache-2.0 + Community Sovereignty License
+
+## Model Description
+
+BERT-based sentiment classifier for Sepedi. Trained on 1,495,728 professional linguistic texts from SADiLaR (South African Centre for Digital Language Resources).
+
+This is the **first public sentiment classifier for Sepedi**, developed as part of the **Sediba AI** community intelligence platform serving Limpopo.
+
+## Usage
+
+```python
+from transformers import pipeline
+
+classifier = pipeline('text-classification', 
+                     model='Sediba-AI/sepedi-sentiment-classifier')
+
+result = classifier('Ubuntu o motle')
+print(result)
+```
+
+## Training Data
+
+| Source | Texts | Share |
+|--------|-------|-------|
+| SADILAR NCHLT Annotated Corpus | 1,423,467 | 95% |
+| Lwazi Dictionaries | 72,261 | 5% |
+| **Total** | **1,495,728** | **100%** |
+
+## Model Details
+
+- **Base Model:** BERT (bert-base-multilingual-cased)
+- **Framework:** Hugging Face Transformers
+- **Training Samples:** 1,495,728
+- **Labels:** POSITIVE, NEGATIVE, NEUTRAL
+- **Accuracy:** 100% on internal test set (n=40)
+
+## Governance
+
+**Data Sovereignty:** Yarena Framework (Sediba AI governance layer)  
+**Community Benefit:** Kutollo Exchange (75% Community / 15% NPC / 10% Developer)  
+**Consent Model:** FPIC (Free, Prior and Informed Consent)
+
+## Citation
+
+```bibtex
+@misc{sediba_ai_sepedi_sentiment_2026,
+  title={Sepedi Sentiment Classifier: Community-Sovereign NLP},
+  author={Lemekoana, Lehlohonolo Owen and TSEBO SOVEREIGN TECH},
+  year={2026},
+  publisher={Hugging Face},
+  url={https://huggingface.co/Sediba-AI/sepedi-sentiment-classifier}
+}
+```
+
+## License
+
+Dual-licensed under Apache-2.0 (research use) and Community Sovereignty License (commercial use).
+
+---
+
+**Developed by:** TSEBO SOVEREIGN TECH (Pty) Ltd  
+**For:** Sediba AI NPC | Mankweng, Limpopo, South Africa  
+**GitHub:** [sediba-ai](https://github.com/sediba-ai)

config.json

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+  "architectures": [
+    "BertForSequenceClassification"
+  ],
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+  "classifier_dropout": null,
+  "directionality": "bidi",
+  "dtype": "float32",
+  "eos_token_id": null,
+  "hidden_act": "gelu",
+  "hidden_dropout_prob": 0.1,
+  "hidden_size": 768,
+  "initializer_range": 0.02,
+  "intermediate_size": 3072,
+  "is_decoder": false,
+  "layer_norm_eps": 1e-12,
+  "max_position_embeddings": 512,
+  "model_type": "bert",
+  "num_attention_heads": 12,
+  "num_hidden_layers": 12,
+  "pad_token_id": 0,
+  "pooler_fc_size": 768,
+  "pooler_num_attention_heads": 12,
+  "pooler_num_fc_layers": 3,
+  "pooler_size_per_head": 128,
+  "pooler_type": "first_token_transform",
+  "problem_type": "single_label_classification",
+  "tie_word_embeddings": true,
+  "transformers_version": "5.8.1",
+  "type_vocab_size": 2,
+  "use_cache": false,
+  "vocab_size": 119547
+}

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tokenizer_config.json

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+  "do_lower_case": false,
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+  "pad_token": "[PAD]",
+  "sep_token": "[SEP]",
+  "strip_accents": null,
+  "tokenize_chinese_chars": true,
+  "tokenizer_class": "BertTokenizer",
+  "unk_token": "[UNK]"
+}