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

22 Oct 2024arXiv:2410.17225archive 2025-07-28

Azmine Toushik Wasi, Wahid Faisal, Taj Ahmad, Abdur Rahman, Mst Rafia Islam

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.

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Tasks

ArticlesAuthority Involvement DetectionData Sources DetectionDetecting Climate/Environmental TopicsImpacted Location DetectionNews Authenticity IdentificationNews Target DetectionPolitical Influence DetectionScientific Data Usage DetectionStance DetectionStatistical Data Usage Detection

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Dhoroni

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Stance Detection Dhoroni BanglaBERT-Dhoroni Accuracy 0.635 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Stance Detection Dhoroni BanglaBERT-Dhoroni F1 Score 0.308 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Stance Detection Dhoroni BanglaBERT-Dhoroni Precision 0.426 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Stance Detection Dhoroni BanglaBERT-Dhoroni Recall 0.295 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report

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AdamAttentionAttention DropoutBERTDense ConnectionsDropoutLayer NormalizationLinear LayerLinear Warmup With Linear DecayMulti-Head AttentionResidual ConnectionSoftmaxWeight DecayWordPiece

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