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Lumasaba Monolingual Corpus

Lumasaba sometimes known as Lugisu is a Bantu language spoken in the Eastern part of Uganda. This dataset contains a total of 39,999 sentences. The sentences are split into two separate files. One file contains 20,764 sentences from the Northern dialect and another one contains 19,235 sentences from the Southern dialect. This dataset was compiled by a team of Linguists and researchers from the Makerere AI and Data Science Research Lab and Marconi Research and Innovation Lab at Makerere University. This dataset was created with support from Lacuna Fund.

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Related Publication @inproceedings{ babirye2022building, title={Building Text and Speech Datasets for Low Resourced Languages: A Case of Languages in East Africa}, author={Claire Babirye and Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende and Andrew Katumba and Ronald Ogwang and Jeremy Tusubira Francis and Jonathan Mukiibi and Medadi Ssentanda and Lilian D Wanzare and Davis David}, booktitle={3rd Workshop on African Natural Language Processing}, year={2022}, url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=SO-U99z4U-q} }https://openreview.net/forum?id=SO-U99z4U-q
keyword Natural Language Processing, Monolingual, Masaba, Gisu