This file contains news texts (sentences) belonging to 5 different news categories (political, business, technology, sports and Entertainment). The original dataset was released by Nisansa de Silva (Sinhala Text Classification: Observations from the Perspective of a Resource Poor Language, 2015). The original dataset is processed and cleaned of single word texts, English only sentences etc.
If you use this dataset, please cite {Nisansa de Silva, Sinhala Text Classification: Observations from… See the full description on the dataset page:
https://huggingface.co/datasets/NLPC-UOM/Sinhala-News-Category-classification.
