ghananlpcommunity/youth-conversations-dag

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Youth Conversations Dataset – Dagbani

Dataset Summary

This dataset contains 774 synthetic transcripts of conversations between a counsellor and a young person in Ghana, rendered in Dagbani. Each transcript was generated as synthetic data using a large language model prompted with excerpts from the UNICEF training module cited below.

The conversations explore topics related to adolescence, sexual and reproductive health, gender, and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV).

Source Document

UNICEF (2019). Providing a Safe and Protective Environment for the Child: Our Collective Responsibility — Additional Training Module & Activity Facilitation Guide on Adolescence, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Gender, and Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV).

Data Fields

Intended Uses

• —Fine-tuning or evaluating language models for counselling dialogue in Dagbani
• —Research on adolescent health communication in West African / Ghanaian contexts
• —Studying synthetic data generation from health education materials for low-resource languages

Limitations & Ethical Considerations

• —All conversations are entirely synthetic – they do not represent real individuals or real counselling sessions.
• —The source UNICEF document is specific to a training context; conversations may not reflect real-world clinical best practice.
• —Models fine-tuned on this data should be validated by domain experts before any deployment in health or counselling settings.
• —The dataset may reflect biases present in both the source document and the generative model used for translation/generation.

Related Datasets

• —youth-conversations-en – English
• —youth-conversations-tw – Twi
• —youth-conversations-ee – Ewe
• —youth-conversations-dag – Dagbani

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite the original UNICEF source:

@misc{youth_conversations_dag,
  title  = {Youth Conversations Dataset – Dagbani},
  author = {Ghana NLP Community},
  note   = {Synthetic data generated from UNICEF (2019) training module},
  url    = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/ghananlpcommunity/youth-conversations-dag}
}