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Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) vs MasakhaPOS

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Category
Datasets
Datasets
Type
Language / NLP
Language / NLP
Country
🇳🇬 Nigeria
🌍 Pan-African
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Free / CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0
Free / CC-BY-NC 4.0
Verified
Verified
Verified
Last verified
10 Oct 2026
10 Oct 2026
Tags
nlp, hausa, machine-translation, multimodal, image-captioning
nlp, african-languages, token-classification, pos-tagging, ud-tags
Summary
Multimodal Hausa-English dataset of 32,923 images with paired English/Hausa region descriptions (train/dev/test/challenge splits), post-edited by HausaNLP and Bayero University Kano translators for English-to-Hausa machine translation and image description.
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.

Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) vs MasakhaPOS at a glance

Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) and MasakhaPOS are both listed under Language / NLP in Wycord's Datasets index.

Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) is based in Nigeria and MasakhaPOS in Pan-African.

Both currently show the status "Docs live".

On access, both are marked "No approval needed".

Over the last 30 days Wycord's probes measured 100% uptime for Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) (36 checks) and 100% for MasakhaPOS (36 checks).

Average response time on live probes was 233 ms for Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) and 240 ms for MasakhaPOS.

Uptime and latency come from Wycord's own probes of each resource's website, documentation and repository, run every six hours.

How they differ

  • Pricing: Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG), Free / CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0; MasakhaPOS, Free / CC-BY-NC 4.0.
  • Country: Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG), Nigeria; MasakhaPOS, Pan-African.
  • Average latency: Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG), 233 ms; MasakhaPOS, 240 ms.

Topics

Both are tagged: nlp.

Only Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG): hausa, machine-translation, multimodal, image-captioning.

Only MasakhaPOS: african-languages, token-classification, pos-tagging, ud-tags.

Common questions

Which has better uptime, Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) or MasakhaPOS?
They are level at 100% over the last 30 days.
Do Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) or MasakhaPOS need approval before use?
Both are marked "No approval needed".
Is the documentation for Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) and MasakhaPOS working?
Both show "Docs live" at the last check.
Where are Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) and MasakhaPOS based?
Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) is based in Nigeria; MasakhaPOS is based in Pan-African.

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