Datasets:

michsethowusu
/

lushai-sentiments-corpus

license: mit
task_categories:
  - text-classification
language:
  - lus
tags:
  - sentiment
  - african-languages
  - nlp
  - text-classification
  - binary-classification
size_categories:
  - 100K<n<1M

Lushai Sentiment Corpus

Dataset Description

This dataset contains sentiment-labeled text data in Lushai for binary sentiment classification (Positive/Negative). Sentiments are extracted and processed from the English meanings of the sentences using DistilBERT for sentiment classification. The dataset is part of a larger collection of African language sentiment analysis resources.

Dataset Statistics

Total samples: 456,848
Positive sentiment: 244652 (53.6%)
Negative sentiment: 212196 (46.4%)

Dataset Structure

Data Fields

Text Column: Contains the original text in Lushai
sentiment: Sentiment label (Positive or Negative only)

Data Splits

This dataset contains a single split with all the processed data.

Data Processing

The sentiment labels were generated using:

Model: distilbert-base-uncased-finetuned-sst-2-english
Processing: Batch processing with optimization for efficiency
Deduplication: Duplicate entries were removed based on text content
Filtering: Only Positive and Negative sentiments retained for binary classification

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the dataset
dataset = load_dataset("michsethowusu/lushai-sentiments-corpus")

# Access the data
print(dataset['train'][0])

# Check sentiment distribution
from collections import Counter
sentiments = [item['sentiment'] for item in dataset['train']]
print(Counter(sentiments))

Use Cases

This dataset is ideal for:

Binary sentiment classification tasks
Training sentiment analysis models for Lushai
Cross-lingual sentiment analysis research
African language NLP model development

Citation

If you use this dataset in your research, please cite:

@dataset{lushai_sentiments_corpus,
  title={Lushai Sentiment Corpus},
  author={Mich-Seth Owusu},
  year={2025},
  url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/michsethowusu/lushai-sentiments-corpus}
}

License

This dataset is released under the MIT License.

Contact

For questions or issues regarding this dataset, please open an issue on the dataset repository.

Dataset Creation

Date: 2025-07-02 Processing Pipeline: Automated sentiment analysis using HuggingFace Transformers Quality Control: Deduplication, batch processing optimizations, and binary sentiment filtering applied