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New dataset tracks crisis sentiment in Bangla during Bangladesh uprising

Researchers have developed UNRESTSENT200K, a new dataset of approximately 200,000 Bangla comments from Facebook and YouTube related to the July-August 2024 Bangladesh uprising. This dataset is designed to evaluate crisis sentiment analysis in low-resource languages, covering five distinct phases of the event, including an internet blackout and a subsequent flood crisis. The study benchmarks various models, including fine-tuned encoders and large language models (LLMs) with and without LoRA tuning, finding that context from parent posts improves performance, while temporal shifts across crisis phases significantly degrade it. Despite strong performance from LLMs, challenges remain with sarcasm and implicit political references. AI

IMPACT This research provides a benchmark for understanding LLM capabilities in low-resource crisis sentiment analysis, crucial for monitoring social and political events.

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New dataset tracks crisis sentiment in Bangla during Bangladesh uprising

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Md. Samiul Alim, Mahir Shahriar Tamim, Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Sharjil Khan, Rafia Ferdous Duti, Shahriyar Zaman Ridoy, Mohammad Ali Moni ·

    Can LLMs Follow the Pulse of a Crisis? Evaluating Crisis Sentiment in Bangladesh's July Uprising

    arXiv:2609.16997v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Crisis sentiment analysis is especially challenging for low-resource languages such as Bangla, where language, context, and public reaction shift rapidly. We introduce UNRESTSENT200K, a Bangla crisis sentiment dataset with approxima…