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SomNLP-Corpus

goobolabs/somnlp-corpus

The largest open Somali text corpus — 887M+ tokens from 6 upstream sources (HPLT · CC100 · mC4 · OPUS · MADLAD · MT560), cleaned through a six-stage pipeline.

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Modality

Text

Size

887M+ tokens · 4.5 GB

License

CC-BY-4.0

Language

Somali (af)

Format

Parquet / JSONL

Version

v2.0

Tasks

LM, NER, POS, Classification

Domains

HPLT · CC100 · mC4 · OPUS · MADLAD · MT560

Splits

SplitRowsSize
train1,686,1464.3 GB
validation44,372115 MB
test44,373115 MB

Quick start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("goobolabs/somnlp-corpus")

sample = ds["train"][0]
print(sample)

Cite

@dataset{somnlp_corpus_2026,
  title   = {SomNLP-Corpus: Open Somali Text Corpus},
  author  = {Goobo Labs},
  year    = {2026},
  version = {2.0},
  license = {CC-BY-4.0},
  url     = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/goobolabs/somnlp-corpus}
}