transformers safetensors roberta text-classification si dataset:sinhala-nlp/NSINA dataset:sinhala-nlp/NSINA-Media license:cc-by-sa-4.0 autotrain_compatible endpoints_compatible region:us
---
datasets:
- sinhala-nlp/NSINA
- sinhala-nlp/NSINA-Media
language:
- si
license: cc-by-sa-4.0
---

# Sinhala News Media Identification
This is a text classification task created with the [NSINA dataset](https://github.com/Sinhala-NLP/NSINA). This dataset is also released with the same license as NSINA. 



## Data
Data can be loaded into pandas dataframes using the following code. 

```python
from datasets import Dataset
from datasets import load_dataset

train = Dataset.to_pandas(load_dataset('sinhala-nlp/NSINA-Media', split='train'))
test = Dataset.to_pandas(load_dataset('sinhala-nlp/NSINA-Media', split='test'))
```

## Citation
If you are using the dataset or the models, please cite the following paper.

~~~
﻿@inproceedings{Nsina2024,
author={Hettiarachchi, Hansi and Premasiri, Damith and Uyangodage, Lasitha and Ranasinghe, Tharindu},
title={{NSINA: A News Corpus for Sinhala}},
booktitle={The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)},
year={2024},
month={May},
}
~~~