Statistics of our datasets including their source, number of sentences in each split, number of annotators, number of entities of each label type, percentage of tokens that are named entities, and total number of tokens.
| Language . | Data Source . | Train/ dev/ test . | # Anno. . | PER . | ORG . | LOC . | DATE . | % of Entities in Tokens . | # Tokens . |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amharic | DW & BBC | 1750/ 250/ 500 | 4 | 730 | 403 | 1,420 | 580 | 15.13 | 37,032 |
| Hausa | VOA Hausa | 1903/ 272/ 545 | 3 | 1,490 | 766 | 2,779 | 922 | 12.17 | 80,152 |
| Igbo | BBC Igbo | 2233/ 319/ 638 | 6 | 1,603 | 1,292 | 1,677 | 690 | 13.15 | 61,668 |
| Kinyarwanda | IGIHE news | 2110/ 301/ 604 | 2 | 1,366 | 1,038 | 2,096 | 792 | 12.85 | 68,819 |
| Luganda | BUKEDDE news | 2003/ 200/ 401 | 3 | 1,868 | 838 | 943 | 574 | 14.81 | 46,615 |
| Luo | Ramogi FM news | 644/ 92/ 185 | 2 | 557 | 286 | 666 | 343 | 14.95 | 26,303 |
| Nigerian-Pidgin | BBC Pidgin | 2100/ 300/ 600 | 5 | 2,602 | 1,042 | 1,317 | 1,242 | 13.25 | 76,063 |
| Swahili | VOA Swahili | 2104/ 300/ 602 | 6 | 1,702 | 960 | 2,842 | 940 | 12.48 | 79,272 |
| Wolof | Lu Defu Waxu & Saabal | 1,871/ 267/ 536 | 2 | 731 | 245 | 836 | 206 | 6.02 | 52,872 |
| Yorùbá | GV & VON news | 2124/ 303/ 608 | 5 | 1,039 | 835 | 1,627 | 853 | 11.57 | 83,285 |
| Language . | Data Source . | Train/ dev/ test . | # Anno. . | PER . | ORG . | LOC . | DATE . | % of Entities in Tokens . | # Tokens . |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amharic | DW & BBC | 1750/ 250/ 500 | 4 | 730 | 403 | 1,420 | 580 | 15.13 | 37,032 |
| Hausa | VOA Hausa | 1903/ 272/ 545 | 3 | 1,490 | 766 | 2,779 | 922 | 12.17 | 80,152 |
| Igbo | BBC Igbo | 2233/ 319/ 638 | 6 | 1,603 | 1,292 | 1,677 | 690 | 13.15 | 61,668 |
| Kinyarwanda | IGIHE news | 2110/ 301/ 604 | 2 | 1,366 | 1,038 | 2,096 | 792 | 12.85 | 68,819 |
| Luganda | BUKEDDE news | 2003/ 200/ 401 | 3 | 1,868 | 838 | 943 | 574 | 14.81 | 46,615 |
| Luo | Ramogi FM news | 644/ 92/ 185 | 2 | 557 | 286 | 666 | 343 | 14.95 | 26,303 |
| Nigerian-Pidgin | BBC Pidgin | 2100/ 300/ 600 | 5 | 2,602 | 1,042 | 1,317 | 1,242 | 13.25 | 76,063 |
| Swahili | VOA Swahili | 2104/ 300/ 602 | 6 | 1,702 | 960 | 2,842 | 940 | 12.48 | 79,272 |
| Wolof | Lu Defu Waxu & Saabal | 1,871/ 267/ 536 | 2 | 731 | 245 | 836 | 206 | 6.02 | 52,872 |
| Yorùbá | GV & VON news | 2124/ 303/ 608 | 5 | 1,039 | 835 | 1,627 | 853 | 11.57 | 83,285 |