This repo contains LUO corpus for Named Entity Recognition. The text comes from the news domain and was scrapped from Radio Ramogi. I did this as part of the Masakhane NER project

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The sentences were obtained from Ramogi FM website: https://rmsradio.co.ke/brands/ramogi-fm/

Dates published: 1/9/2018 - 10/3/2021. Get the most updated information from README.txt

Get the most updated information from README.txt

This repo contains 3 main files of interest.

This file

Contains statistical description of the data- News domains, publication and collection dates

Contains a cleaned compilation the text

The rest are just files used in the collection and cleaning process.

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• Option 2

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Perez Ogayo

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• How do I do collect the sentences?
  • Go to the Ramogi Website . Typically, you will only find the latest news.
  • If you have exhausted the latest news, go to the web archive to get links of earlier news.

I am in the process of setting up a wallet. Feel free to reach out to me so that I can give you other payment details in the meantime.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.