KINNEWS and KIRNEWS

KINNEWS and KIRNEWS: Benchmarking Cross-Lingual Text Classification for Kinyarwanda and Kirundi

The experiments show that training embeddings on the relatively higher-resourced Kinyarwanda yields successful cross-lingual transfer to Kirundi, and the design of the created datasets allows for a wider use in NLP beyond text classification in future studies, such as representation learning, cross-lingsual learning with more distant languages, or as base for new annotations for tasks such as parsing, POS tagging, and NER.