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MasakhaNEWS 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
10 Oct 2026
10 Oct 2026
Tags
nlp, african-languages, text-classification, news, topic-classification
nlp, african-languages, token-classification, pos-tagging, ud-tags
Summary
News-topic-classification dataset for 16 widely spoken African languages (incl. Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Nigerian Pidgin), ~31,088 rows in CSV/Parquet with train/val/test splits across seven topic categories. 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.

MasakhaNEWS vs MasakhaPOS at a glance

MasakhaNEWS and MasakhaPOS are both listed under Language / NLP in Wycord's Datasets index.

Both are based 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 MasakhaNEWS (36 checks) and 100% for MasakhaPOS (36 checks).

Average response time on live probes was 247 ms for MasakhaNEWS 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

  • Average latency: MasakhaNEWS, 247 ms; MasakhaPOS, 240 ms.

Topics

Both are tagged: nlp, african-languages.

Only MasakhaNEWS: text-classification, news, topic-classification.

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

Common questions

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

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