Multi-Aspect Annotation and Analysis of Nepali Tweets on Anti-Establishment Election Discourse
Rauniyar, Kritesh, Poudel, Sweta, Shiwakoti, Shuvam, Thapa, Surendrabikram, Rashid, Junaid, Kim, Jungeun, Imran, Muhammad, and Naseem, Usman (2023) Multi-Aspect Annotation and Analysis of Nepali Tweets on Anti-Establishment Election Discourse. IEEE Access, 11. 143093.
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Abstract
In today's social media-dominated landscape, digital platforms wield substantial influence over public opinion, particularly during crucial political events such as electoral processes. These platforms become hubs for diverse discussions, encompassing topics, reforms, and desired changes. Notably, in times of government dissatisfaction, they serve as arenas for anti-establishment discourse, highlighting the need to analyze public sentiment in these conversations. However, the analysis of such discourse is notably scarce, even in high-resource languages, and entirely non-existent in the context of the Nepali language. To address this critical gap, we present Nepal Anti Establishment discourse Tweets (NAET), a novel dataset comprising 4,445 multi-aspect annotated Nepali tweets, facilitating a comprehensive understanding of political conversations. Our contributions encompass evaluating tweet relevance, sentiment, and satire, while also exploring the presence of hate speech, identifying its targets, and distinguishing directed and non-directed expressions. Additionally, we investigate hope speech, an underexplored aspect crucial in the context of anti-establishment discourse, as it reflects the aspirations and expectations from new political figures and parties. Furthermore, we set NLP-based baselines for all these tasks. To ensure a holistic analysis, we also employ topic modeling, a powerful technique that helps us identify and understand the prevalent themes and patterns emerging from the discourse. Our research thus presents a comprehensive and multi-faceted perspective on anti-establishment election discourse in a low-resource language setting. The dataset is publicly available, facilitating in-depth analysis of political tweets in Nepali discourse and further advancing NLP research for the Nepali language through labeled data and baselines for various NLP tasks. The dataset for this work is made available at https://github.com/rkritesh210/NAET.
Item ID: | 81523 |
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Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
ISSN: | 2169-3536 |
Keywords: | Annotations, Blogs, Hate speech, Natural Language Processing, Nepali Election Discourse, Sentiment Analysis, Sentiment analysis, Social Media Analytics, Social networking (online), Task analysis, Topic Modeling, Voting |
Copyright Information: | © 2023 The Authors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License. For more information, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 |
Date Deposited: | 22 Feb 2024 00:05 |
FoR Codes: | 46 INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES > 4602 Artificial intelligence > 460208 Natural language processing @ 100% |
SEO Codes: | 22 INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION SERVICES > 2201 Communication technologies, systems and services > 220103 Mobile technologies and communications @ 100% |
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