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license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
- token-classification
language:
- sw
pretty_name: swahili_verbs
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# Swahili Verb Conjugation Dataset

The **Swahili Verb Conjugation Dataset** is an extensive resource containing over **319,156 meticulously compiled verb forms**, designed to capture the intricate agglutinative morphology of **Swahili**.  

Swahili, a Bantu language widely spoken across East Africa, features a highly developed inflectional system in which verbs are modified through prefixes and suffixes to encode grammatical categories such as **tense, aspect, mood, person, and number**.  

This dataset was published as a peer-reviewed paper:  
👉 [**Unveiling Swahili Verb Conjugations: A Comprehensive Dataset for Low-Resource NLP**](https://doi.org/10.1145/3711542.3711596)

## Authors

- **Irene Masiringi Mathayo**  
- **Alfred Malengo Kondoro**

## License

This dataset is licensed under the **Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)** license.  
You are free to share, copy, and modify the dataset as long as you:  
- Give appropriate credit  
- Provide a link to the [CC BY 4.0 license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)  
- Indicate if changes were made  

Further permission may be required for any content within the dataset that belongs to a third party.

## How to Cite

If you use this dataset, please cite it as:  

**Irene Masiringi Mathayo and Alfred Malengo Kondoro. 2024. Unveiling Swahili Verb Conjugations: A Comprehensive Dataset for Low-Resource NLP. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM '24). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3711542.3711596**