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This is a language identification dataset for 8 Philippine languages; English, Tagalog, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Ilokano, Bicolano, Pangasinense, and Kapampangan.

Dataset Details

Dataset Description

  • Curated by: Abien Fred Agarap
  • Language(s) (NLP): English, Tagalog, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Ilokano, Bicolano, Pangasinense, and Kapampangan
  • License: MIT

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Dataset Creation

Source Data

To build a text identification engine, various documents (news articles, blogs, Wikipedia articles, and social media posts) were collected for each of the languages to serve as the working corpus of the project. Sources of the data were manually identified based on the language used. The crawled data are automatically labelled of their language base on its source.

Personal and Sensitive Information

All personally identifiable information were removed using regular expressions, which include but is not limited to Twitter handles and URLs.

Bias, Risks, and Limitations

This dataset may not be a fully accurate representation of the Philippine languages included.

Recommendations

Users should be made aware of the risks, biases, limitations, and possible incorrect annotations of the dataset.