Bengali Political Sentiment Analysis Dataset

This dataset comprises 3,290 Bengali political comments sourced from social media platforms, news comment sections, and online political discussions, specifically curated for sentiment analysis research in Bengali NLP. The corpus provides a comprehensive resource for training and evaluating sentiment classification models within the political domain. The dataset features 3,290 instances distributed across five sentiment classes with excellent balance (variance <8%): Very Negative (675, 20.5%), Negative (663, 20.2%), Neutral (626, 19.0%), Very Positive (664, 20.2%), and Positive (662, 20.1%). Stored in Excel format with two columns containing Bengali political comments (Unicode text) and corresponding sentiment labels, the dataset maintains high quality with no missing values and verified annotations. Comment lengths average 83 characters, ranging from 11 to 398 characters. The collection encompasses diverse political discourse including government policies and governance, electoral processes and democracy, political parties and leadership dynamics, social and economic issues, current affairs and political events, along with public opinion and citizen responses to political developments. This dataset serves multiple research purposes, including Bengali sentiment analysis model development and benchmarking, political discourse analysis and opinion mining, natural language processing research for low-resource languages, cross-lingual sentiment analysis studies, social media analytics for Bengali content, multi-class text classification research, and comparative political sentiment studies across different linguistic and cultural contexts.