BTPD: A Multilingual Hand-curated Dataset of Bengali Transnational Political Discourse Across Online Communities

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06813v1
• Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2025 14:43:35 GMT
• Title: BTPD: A Multilingual Hand-curated Dataset of Bengali Transnational Political Discourse Across Online Communities
• Authors: Dipto Das, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Shion Guha,
• Abstract summary: We present a multilingual dataset of Bengali political discourse (BTPD) collected from three online platforms.<n>This paper also provides a general overview of its topics and multilingual content.
• Score: 25.55378198149251
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Understanding political discourse in online spaces is crucial for analyzing public opinion and ideological polarization. While social computing and computational linguistics have explored such discussions in English, such research efforts are significantly limited in major yet under-resourced languages like Bengali due to the unavailability of datasets. In this paper, we present a multilingual dataset of Bengali transnational political discourse (BTPD) collected from three online platforms, each representing distinct community structures and interaction dynamics. Besides describing how we hand-curated the dataset through community-informed keyword-based retrieval, this paper also provides a general overview of its topics and multilingual content.

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