Ossetian-News-Multilabel

A dataset for multi-label classification of Ossetian news articles, where each record can belong to multiple thematic categories simultaneously.
Contains approximately 13,036 manually curated records in the Ossetian language, designed for training and evaluating NLP models on complex topic assignment tasks.

📊 Dataset Statistics

Metric	Value
Total records	13,036
Language	Ossetian (ISO 639-1: os)
Task type	Multi-label text classification
Number of labels	12
Avg. labels per record	1.03 (median: 1.0, max: 3)
Label matrix sparsity	91.4% zeros
Avg. text length	1,622 ± 1,981 characters
License	CC BY 4.0

📁 Data Fields

Field	Type	Description
text	string	Full news text (headline + body content) in Ossetian
labels	list[string]	List of thematic categories (1 or more per record)
url	string	Original source URL of the news article

🏷️ List of Possible Labels: Культура и Искусство, Общество и Социальная сфера, Политика и Государство, Спорт, Происшествия и Правопорядок, Медицина и ЗОЖ, Образование и Наука, Сельское хозяйство и Экология, Экономика и ЖКХ, История и Память, Туризм и География, Религия и Традиции

💻 Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load and preview 5 samples
ds = load_dataset("OssetianNLPWorld/ossetian-news-multilabel")
for i, sample in enumerate(ds["train"].select(range(5)), 1):
    print(f"\n--- Sample {i} ---")
    print(f"Labels: {sample['labels']}")
    print(f"Text: {sample['text'][:200]}...")
    print(f"URL: {sample['url']}")

🔗 Data Sources

News articles were collected from the following Ossetian-language media outlets:

Source	Type
alaniatv.ru	TV & news portal
iryston.tv	Regional TV & news
mahdug.ru	Cultural & social news
rastdzinad.ru	Regional news
sputnik-ossetia.com	News agency
xurzarin.ru	Independent news portal

🙏 About the Creator

This dataset and the OssetianNLPWorld organization on Hugging Face were created and are maintained by:

Arabov Mullosharaf Kurbonovich
Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Associate Professor
Department of Data Analysis and Programming Technologies
Kazan Federal University, Russia

The OssetianNLP initiative is a personal research project aimed at developing natural language processing tools and resources for the Ossetian language and other low-resource languages of the Caucasus region.

📄 Citation

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

@dataset{arabov2026ossetiannewsmultilabel,
  author = {Arabov, Mullosharaf Kurbonovich},
  title = {{Ossetian-News-Multilabel}: A Dataset for Multi-Label Classification of Ossetian News},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/OssetianNLPWorld/ossetian-news-multilabel},
  license = {CC BY 4.0}
}

⚠️ Limitations

• Most records have only 1 label (~97%); true multi-label examples are relatively rare.
• Class imbalance is present: frequent labels like "Культура" (23.2%) dominate over rare ones like "Религия" (0.5%).
• Labels are provided in Russian for compatibility with existing annotation workflows.
• Some articles may contain mixed-language content (Ossetian + Russian).

📬 Contact

For questions, collaboration proposals, or feedback:

Arabov Mullosharaf Kurbonovich
📧 cool.araby@gmail.com
🔗 Telegram: @cool_araby • VK: @cool.araby
🏢 Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia

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Dataset version: 1.0 • Last updated: April 2026 • Part of the OssetianNLP initiative by Arabov M.K.