Datasets:
Tasks:
Text Classification
Modalities:
Text
Formats:
parquet
Languages:
Lao
Size:
10K - 100K
License:
| license: cc-by-4.0 | |
| task_categories: | |
| - text-classification | |
| language: | |
| - lo | |
| dataset_info: | |
| features: | |
| - name: title | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: text | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: category | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: date | |
| dtype: string | |
| - name: url | |
| dtype: string | |
| splits: | |
| - name: train | |
| num_bytes: 35918409 | |
| num_examples: 9196 | |
| - name: validation | |
| num_bytes: 12004289 | |
| num_examples: 3066 | |
| - name: test | |
| num_bytes: 11900560 | |
| num_examples: 3066 | |
| download_size: 23075226 | |
| dataset_size: 59823258 | |
| configs: | |
| - config_name: default | |
| data_files: | |
| - split: train | |
| path: data/train-* | |
| - split: validation | |
| path: data/validation-* | |
| - split: test | |
| path: data/test-* | |
| size_categories: | |
| - 10K<n<100K | |
| # Dataset Card for Lao News classification | |
| Lao News classification dataset | |
| This dataset are collected Lao News for News classification from [laopost.com](https://laopost.com/). | |
| ## Dataset Details | |
| ### Dataset Description | |
| - **Curated by:** Wannaphong Phatthiyaphaibun | |
| - **Language(s) (NLP):** Lao | |
| - **License:** cc-by-4.0 | |
| ## Uses | |
| <!-- Address questions around how the dataset is intended to be used. --> | |
| ### Direct Use | |
| News classification | |
| ## Dataset Structure | |
| The dataset is divided into three splits: `train`, `validation`, and `test`. Each split contains news articles, with each article represented as a dictionary with the following fields: | |
| * **title:** The title of the news article (string). | |
| * **text:** The main content of the news article (string). | |
| * **category:** The category of the news article (string). | |
| * **date:** The publication date of the news article (string). | |
| * **url:** The URL of the news article (string). | |
| The dataset is structured as a `DatasetDict` object, which contains three `Dataset` objects, one for each split. | |
| * The `train` split contains 9196 news articles. | |
| * The `validation` split contains 3066 news articles. | |
| * The `test` split contains 3066 news articles. | |
| The splits likely represent a standard train/validation/test split, designed for training, evaluating, and testing machine learning models. The exact criteria used to create these splits are not explicitly stated, but are implied to provide a representative distribution of the data. | |
| ### Categorys | |
| **Train** | |
| ``` | |
| ຂ່າວຕ່າງປະເທດ 3417 | |
| ຂ່າວພາຍໃນ 3219 | |
| ຂ່າວທ້ອງຖິ່ນ 1307 | |
| ຂ່າວເຫດການ 459 | |
| ສຸຂະພາບ ແລະ ສີ່ງແວດລ້ອມ 404 | |
| ຂ່າວບັນເທິງ 240 | |
| ຂ່າວທ່ອງທ່ຽວ 150 | |
| ``` | |
| **Validation** | |
| ``` | |
| ຂ່າວຕ່າງປະເທດ 1163 | |
| ຂ່າວພາຍໃນ 1026 | |
| ຂ່າວທ້ອງຖິ່ນ 449 | |
| ຂ່າວເຫດການ 157 | |
| ສຸຂະພາບ ແລະ ສີ່ງແວດລ້ອມ 137 | |
| ຂ່າວບັນເທິງ 86 | |
| ຂ່າວທ່ອງທ່ຽວ 48 | |
| ``` | |
| **Test** | |
| ``` | |
| ຂ່າວຕ່າງປະເທດ 1185 | |
| ຂ່າວພາຍໃນ 1059 | |
| ຂ່າວທ້ອງຖິ່ນ 431 | |
| ຂ່າວເຫດການ 147 | |
| ສຸຂະພາບ ແລະ ສີ່ງແວດລ້ອມ 136 | |
| ຂ່າວບັນເທິງ 64 | |
| ຂ່າວທ່ອງທ່ຽວ 44 | |
| ``` | |
| ## Dataset Creation | |
| We are collected news and categorys from [laopost.com](https://laopost.com/). | |
| **Categorys** | |
| - `ຂ່າວຕ່າງປະເທດ`: Foreign news | |
| - `ຂ່າວພາຍໃນ`: Laos internal news | |
| - `ຂ່າວທ້ອງຖິ່ນ`: Local news | |
| - `ຂ່າວເຫດການ`: Event news, such as accidents, crimes, illegal activities | |
| - `ສຸຂະພາບ ແລະ ສີ່ງແວດລ້ອມ`: Health and environmental news | |
| - `ຂ່າວບັນເທິງ`: Entertainment news | |
| - `ຂ່າວທ່ອງທ່ຽວ`: Travel News | |
| Other categories are not collect to this dataset because it has few news in the tag, duplicate categories (Example ອຸບັດເຫດແລະປາກົດການຫຍໍ້ທໍ້ and ຂ່າວເຫດການ), or the tag are out-of-date update in the website (Example ມູມໄອທີລາວ or IT news latest update 22/11/2024 ). | |
| ### Licensing Information | |
| The dataset is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The use of this dataset is also subject to [CommonCrawl's Terms of Use](https://commoncrawl.org/terms-of-use). | |
| ## Citation | |
| If you use this dataset in your project or research, you can cite as follows: | |
| **BibTeX:** | |
| ``` | |
| @dataset{phatthiyaphaibun_2025_14967275, | |
| author = {Phatthiyaphaibun, Wannaphong}, | |
| title = {Lao News classification}, | |
| month = mar, | |
| year = 2025, | |
| publisher = {Zenodo}, | |
| version = {1.0.0}, | |
| doi = {10.5281/zenodo.14967275}, | |
| url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14967275}, | |
| } | |
| ``` | |
| **APA:** | |
| Phatthiyaphaibun, W. (2025). Lao News classification (1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14967275 |