Dhoroni: Exploring Bengali Climate Change and Environmental Views with a Multi-Perspective News Dataset and Natural Language Processing

Autor:	Wasi, Azmine Toushik, Faisal, Wahid, Ahmad, Taj, Rahman, Abdur, Islam, Mst Rafia
Rok vydání:	2024
Předmět:	Computer Science - Computation and Language Computer Science - Computers and Society Computer Science - Machine Learning Statistics - Applications
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	Climate change poses critical challenges globally, disproportionately affecting low-income countries that often lack resources and linguistic representation on the international stage. Despite Bangladesh's status as one of the most vulnerable nations to climate impacts, research gaps persist in Bengali-language studies related to climate change and NLP. To address this disparity, we introduce Dhoroni, a novel Bengali (Bangla) climate change and environmental news dataset, comprising a 2300 annotated Bangla news articles, offering multiple perspectives such as political influence, scientific/statistical data, authenticity, stance detection, and stakeholder involvement. Furthermore, we present an in-depth exploratory analysis of Dhoroni and introduce BanglaBERT-Dhoroni family, a novel baseline model family for climate and environmental opinion detection in Bangla, fine-tuned on our dataset. This research contributes significantly to enhancing accessibility and analysis of climate discourse in Bengali (Bangla), addressing crucial communication and research gaps in climate-impacted regions like Bangladesh with 180 million people. Comment: In Review
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17225 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv