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Curated Nigerian Pidgin English corpus of 416,343 text entries

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Nwogo et al.'s publicly released corpus of Nigerian Pidgin text entries scraped, cleaned, and formatted from BBC Pidgin and Prime9ja for fine-tuning and evaluating Pidgin-aware language models.

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  • Curated Nigerian Pidgin English corpus of 416,343 text entries scraped from BBC Pidgin and Prime9ja, publicly released for fine-tuning and evaluation: A web-scraped corpus of Nigerian Pidgin English built from publicly accessible news platforms including BBC Pidgin and Prime9ja, cleaned through lowercasing, deduplication and normalisation, and formatted into instruction-style conversational pairs. The authors state "the final dataset comprises 416,343 high-quality Nigerian Pidgin English text entries spanning news reporting, commentary, and informal discourse". It was used to fine-tune the platform's Pidgin-aware LLM and released publicly via Zenodo and Hugging Face. (Nwogo et al. (2026))

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  • Nwogo, E. U., Ihianle, I. K., Machado, P., Bird, J. J., Lotfi, A., Shuaib, A. A., Akinwumi, I. I., & Oluranti, J. (2026). An AI-Based Adaptive Learning Platform for Multilingual and Low-Resource Educational Contexts: A Case Study on Nigeria. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.15738. doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.15738
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title Curated Nigerian Pidgin English corpus of 416,343 text entries
description Nwogo et al.'s publicly released corpus of Nigerian Pidgin text entries scraped, cleaned, and formatted from BBC Pidgin and Prime9ja for fine-tuning and evaluating Pidgin-aware language models.
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