Enhancing text pre-processing for Swahili language: Datasets for common Swahili stop-words, slangs and typos with equivalent proper words

Natural Language Processing requires data to be pre-processed to guarantee quality models in different machine learning tasks. However, Swahili language have been disadvantaged and is classified as low resource language because of inadequate data for NLP especially basic textual datasets that are us...

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Main Authors: Bernard Masua, Noel Masasi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-12-01
Series:Data in Brief
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340920313998