wannaphong's picture
Update README.md
98e4e0f verified
---
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