README.md

metadata

annotations_creators: []
language_creators:
  - crowdsourced
language:
  - si
license:
  - mit
multilinguality:
  - monolingual
pretty_name: sinhala-writing-style-classification
size_categories: []
source_datasets: []
task_categories:
  - text-classification
task_ids: []

This file contains news texts (sentences) belonging to different writing styles. The original dataset created by {Upeksha, D., Wijayarathna, C., Siriwardena, M., Lasandun, L., Wimalasuriya, C., de Silva, N., and Dias, G. (2015). Implementing a corpus for Sinhala language. 01}is processed and cleaned.

If you use this dataset, please cite {Dhananjaya et al. BERTifying Sinhala - A Comprehensive Analysis of Pre-trained Language Models for Sinhala Text Classification, 2022} and the above mentioned paper.