MasakhaPOS
VerifiedPart-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.
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- 🌍 Pan-African
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- 10 Jul 2026
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- 10 Jul 2026 · live
- 7 Jul 2026 · live
- 5 Jul 2026 · live
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