Datasets:

michsethowusu
/

chichewa-emotions-corpus

license: mit
task_categories:
  - text-classification
language:
  - nya
tags:
  - emotion
  - african-languages
  - nlp
  - text-classification
size_categories:
  - 100K<n<1M

Chichewa Emotion Analysis Corpus

Dataset Description

This dataset contains emotion-labeled text data in Chichewa for emotion classification (joy, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, disgust, neutral). Emotions were extracted and processed from the English meanings of the sentences using the model j-hartmann/emotion-english-distilroberta-base. The dataset is part of a larger collection of African language emotion analysis resources.

Dataset Statistics

Total samples: 834,921
Joy: 64232 (7.7%)
Sadness: 41439 (5.0%)
Anger: 35225 (4.2%)
Fear: 31738 (3.8%)
Surprise: 32888 (3.9%)
Disgust: 63577 (7.6%)
Neutral: 565822 (67.8%)

Dataset Structure

Data Fields

Text Column: Contains the original text in Chichewa
emotion: Emotion label (joy, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, disgust, neutral)

Data Splits

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

Data Processing

The emotion labels were generated using:

Model: j-hartmann/emotion-english-distilroberta-base
Processing: Batch processing with optimization for efficiency
Deduplication: Duplicate entries were removed based on text content

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the dataset
dataset = load_dataset("michsethowusu/chichewa-emotions-corpus")

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

Citation

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

@dataset{chichewa_emotions_corpus,
  title={Chichewa Emotions Corpus},
  author={Mich-Seth Owusu},
  year={2025},
  url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/michsethowusu/chichewa-emotions-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: 2025-07-04 Processing Pipeline: Automated emotion analysis using HuggingFace Transformers Quality Control: Deduplication and batch processing optimizations applied