KHF News Labeled Dataset – Tajikistan Emergency Committee
Description
This dataset is an enhanced version of the original KHF News Dataset. It contains 5539 news articles from the official website of the Committee for Emergency Situations and Civil Defense of Tajikistan (www.khf.tj), labelled with crisis-related categories using a LLaMA‑3 8B model in a zero‑shot setting.
The articles cover the period from 2016 to 2026.
Data Fields
Each record includes:
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
url |
string | Direct URL to the article |
title |
string | Headline of the news item |
content |
string | Full text of the article |
excerpt |
string | First 200 characters (preview) |
date |
string | Publication date in ISO format |
category |
string | One of 7 crisis categories (see below) |
author |
string | Author name |
site |
string | Domain (khf.tj) |
hash |
string | SHA256 hash of the content (for deduplication) |
Categories (7 classes)
- earthquake – землетрясение
- flood – наводнение, сель
- landslide – оползень, обвал
- fire – пожар
- rescue – спасательные работы, ДТП с пострадавшими
- training – учения, профилактика, собрания
- general – общие новости (погода, визиты, не ЧС)
Category Distribution
- general: 3110 (56.1%)
- rescue: 814 (14.7%)
- training: 705 (12.7%)
- flood: 602 (10.9%)
- earthquake: 213 (3.8%)
- fire: 59 (1.1%)
- landslide: 36 (0.6%)
Labelling Methodology
The categories were assigned automatically using the LLaMA‑3 8B model (quantized to 4‑bit) via Ollama in a zero‑shot prompting setup. The model was instructed to output a single category in JSON format. Only 73 out of 5612 articles (1.3%) were marked as unknown_category and excluded from this release.
Usage Example
from datasets import load_dataset
dataset = load_dataset("TajikNLPWorld/khf_news_labeled", split="train")
print(dataset[0]['category'])
print(dataset[0]['content'][:300])
License
This dataset is released under the MIT License.
Citation
If you use this dataset, please cite both the original dataset and this labelled version:
@dataset{khf_news_labeled_2026,
author = {TajikNLPWorld},
title = {KHF News Labeled Dataset – Tajikistan Emergency Committee},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Hugging Face},
url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/TajikNLPWorld/khf_news_labeled}
}
Contact
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