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ORIN Lyrics Dataset: A Comprehensive Corpus of Multilingua Nigerian Song Lyrics for NLP

The ORIN Lyrics dataset contains 862 Nigerian song lyrics covering Yoruba, English, Nigerian Pidgin, and multilingual combinations, with metadata including artist, title, album, year, genre, etc., designed for NLP research.

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Key facts

InstitutionOlabisi Onabanjo University
CoverageNigerian song lyrics in Yoruba, English, Nigerian Pidgin, and multilingual combinations
Time spanPublished in 2025
Scale862 entries
LicenseCC BY 4.0
AccessMendeley Data

Contents & fields

The dataset is provided as a structured Excel (.xlsx) file containing raw lyric text, preprocessed text, metadata, topic modeling results, and energy logs. Fields include:

  • S/N——Record identifier
  • Artist——Performer or band name
  • Lyrics——Full text of song lyrics
  • Title——Song title
  • Album——Album name (if available)
  • Year——Year of release
  • Genre——Primary music genre classification
  • Subgenre——Additional detailed genre classification
  • Source——URLs linking to the original lyrics source
  • Time——Song duration in HH:MM:SS format
  • Region——Region/country of origin
  • Language——Language or multilingual combinations
  • Group——Broader musical category or grouping

Research uses

Suitable for natural language processing (NLP), sentiment analysis, music information retrieval (MIR), computational ethnomusicology, cultural AI applications, especially for low-resource languages, cultural text mining, and cross-lingual NLP tasks.

This card was drafted from the source page; institution, coverage, time span, scale, fields and license are subject to the official page (pending human review).

Keywords

Nigerian lyricsmultilingualnatural language processinglow-resource languagemusic information retrievalCC BY 4.0

Access & license

License: License pending verification | Free to access

Why this is hard to get on your own

Obtaining high-quality, multilingual Nigerian lyrics with rich metadata for NLP research, especially for low-resource language processing.

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