Paper ID: 2311.15032

nlpBDpatriots at BLP-2023 Task 2: A Transfer Learning Approach to Bangla Sentiment Analysis

Dhiman Goswami, Md Nishat Raihan, Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury Puspo, Marcos Zampieri

In this paper, we discuss the nlpBDpatriots entry to the shared task on Sentiment Analysis of Bangla Social Media Posts organized at the first workshop on Bangla Language Processing (BLP) co-located with EMNLP. The main objective of this task is to identify the polarity of social media content using a Bangla dataset annotated with positive, neutral, and negative labels provided by the shared task organizers. Our best system for this task is a transfer learning approach with data augmentation which achieved a micro F1 score of 0.71. Our best system ranked 12th among 30 teams that participated in the competition.

Submitted: Nov 25, 2023