BengaliSent140: A Large-Scale Bengali Binary Sentiment Dataset for Hate and Non-Hate Speech Classification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20129v1
• Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 23:47:46 GMT
• Title: BengaliSent140: A Large-Scale Bengali Binary Sentiment Dataset for Hate and Non-Hate Speech Classification
• Authors: Akif Islam, Sujan Kumar Roy, Md. Ekramul Hamid,
• Abstract summary: We introduce BengaliSent140, a large-scale binary sentiment dataset constructed by consolidating seven existing Bengali text datasets into a unified corpus.<n>The resulting dataset comprises 139,792 unique text samples, including 68,548 hate and 71,244 not-hate instances.<n>By integrating data from multiple sources and domains, BengaliSent140 offers broader linguistic and contextual coverage.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Sentiment analysis for the Bengali language has attracted increasing research interest in recent years. However, progress remains constrained by the scarcity of large-scale and diverse annotated datasets. Although several Bengali sentiment and hate speech datasets are publicly available, most are limited in size or confined to a single domain, such as social media comments. Consequently, these resources are often insufficient for training modern deep learning based models, which require large volumes of heterogeneous data to learn robust and generalizable representations. In this work, we introduce BengaliSent140, a large-scale Bengali binary sentiment dataset constructed by consolidating seven existing Bengali text datasets into a unified corpus. To ensure consistency across sources, heterogeneous annotation schemes are systematically harmonized into a binary sentiment formulation with two classes: Not Hate (0) and Hate (1). The resulting dataset comprises 139,792 unique text samples, including 68,548 hate and 71,244 not-hate instances, yielding a relatively balanced class distribution. By integrating data from multiple sources and domains, BengaliSent140 offers broader linguistic and contextual coverage than existing Bengali sentiment datasets and provides a strong foundation for training and benchmarking deep learning models. Baseline experimental results are also reported to demonstrate the practical usability of the dataset. The dataset is publicly available at https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/akifislam/bengalisent140/

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