Lao News classification

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Lao News classification dataset

This dataset are collected Lao News for News classification from laopost.com.

Dataset Details

Dataset Description

Curated by: Wannaphong Phatthiyaphaibun

Language(s) (NLP): Lao

License: cc-by-4.0

Uses

Direct Use

News classification

Dataset Structure

The dataset is divided into three splits: train, validation, and test. Each split contains news articles, with each article represented as a dictionary with the following fields:

title: The title of the news article (string).

text: The main content of the news article (string).

category: The category of the news article (string).

date: The publication date of the news article (string).

url: The URL of the news article (string).

The dataset is structured as a DatasetDict object, which contains three Dataset objects, one for each split.

The train split contains 9196 news articles.

The validation split contains 3066 news articles.

The test split contains 3066 news articles.

The splits likely represent a standard train/validation/test split, designed for training, evaluating, and testing machine learning models. The exact criteria used to create these splits are not explicitly stated, but are implied to provide a representative distribution of the data.

Categorys

Train

ຂ່າວຕ່າງປະເທດ 3417
ຂ່າວພາຍໃນ 3219
ຂ່າວທ້ອງຖິ່ນ 1307
ຂ່າວເຫດການ 459
ສຸຂະພາບ ແລະ ສີ່ງແວດລ້ອມ 404
ຂ່າວບັນເທິງ 240
ຂ່າວທ່ອງທ່ຽວ 150

Validation

ຂ່າວຕ່າງປະເທດ 1163
ຂ່າວພາຍໃນ 1026
ຂ່າວທ້ອງຖິ່ນ 449
ຂ່າວເຫດການ 157
ສຸຂະພາບ ແລະ ສີ່ງແວດລ້ອມ 137
ຂ່າວບັນເທິງ 86
ຂ່າວທ່ອງທ່ຽວ 48

Test

ຂ່າວຕ່າງປະເທດ 1185
ຂ່າວພາຍໃນ 1059
ຂ່າວທ້ອງຖິ່ນ 431
ຂ່າວເຫດການ 147
ສຸຂະພາບ ແລະ ສີ່ງແວດລ້ອມ 136
ຂ່າວບັນເທິງ 64
ຂ່າວທ່ອງທ່ຽວ 44

Dataset Creation

We are collected news and categorys from laopost.com.

Categorys

ຂ່າວຕ່າງປະເທດ: Foreign news

ຂ່າວພາຍໃນ: Laos internal news

ຂ່າວທ້ອງຖິ່ນ: Local news

ຂ່າວເຫດການ: Event news, such as accidents, crimes, illegal activities

ສຸຂະພາບ ແລະ ສີ່ງແວດລ້ອມ: Health and environmental news

ຂ່າວບັນເທິງ: Entertainment news

ຂ່າວທ່ອງທ່ຽວ: Travel News

Other categories are not collect to this dataset because it has few news in the tag, duplicate categories (Example ອຸບັດເຫດແລະປາກົດການຫຍໍ້ທໍ້ and ຂ່າວເຫດການ), or the tag are out-of-date update in the website (Example ມູມໄອທີລາວ or IT news latest update 22/11/2024 ).

Licensing Information

The dataset is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The use of this dataset is also subject to CommonCrawl's Terms of Use.

Citation

If you use this dataset in your project or research, you can cite as follows:

BibTeX:

@dataset{phatthiyaphaibun_2025_14967275,
author = {Phatthiyaphaibun, Wannaphong},
title = {Lao News classification},
month = mar,
year = 2025,
publisher = {Zenodo},
version = {1.0.0},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.14967275},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14967275},
}

APA:

Phatthiyaphaibun, W. (2025). Lao News classification (1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14967275