arXiv AI

A Unified BERT-CNN-BiLSTM Framework for Simultaneous Headline Classification and Sentiment Analysis of Bangla News

The paper introduces a hybrid BERT‑CNN‑BiLSTM model for simultaneously classifying Bangla news headlines and performing sentiment analysis. Using the BAN‑ABSA dataset of 9,014 headlines, the authors compare two sampling strategies and report headline accuracy up to 81.37 % and sentiment accuracy up to 73.43 %. The proposed framework outperforms baseline models and establishes new state‑of‑the‑art results for Bangla headline classification and sentiment analysis.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 24

MIL-BERT: Classification of Arbitrarily Large Text with Performance and Explanatory Guarantees

MIL-BERT is a neural network algorithm that classifies large texts by selecting relevant excerpts, inspired by multiple instance learning. It scales to samples with nearly 1 million tokens and has been evaluated on seven datasets, achieving state‑of‑the‑art results on three long‑text tasks such as political bias detection, trigger warning identification, and author demographic inference. The model also generalizes from weakly‑labeled text bags to accurately classify smaller instances.

By John Cadigan, Dayne Freitag, Eric Yeh
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

BanglaMamba: Exploring State Space Models for Bangla Fake News Detection

BanglaMamba explores Mamba-based State Space Models (SSMs) as a computationally efficient alternative for Bangla fake news detection. Compared to BanglaBERT and a custom BERT trained from scratch, BanglaMamba achieves a Macro‑F1 score of 0.9029, close to the 0.9057 of the custom BERT, while delivering 2.2× higher inference throughput and 49% lower peak GPU memory usage. Cross‑dataset evaluation shows BanglaBERT generalizes better, underscoring the value of large‑scale pretraining.

By M. K. Khalidi Siam
arXiv AI
Aug 7

Automatic Detection of Deaths from Social Networking Sites

arXiv:2608. 05183v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This dissertation analysed and discussed the differences in linguistic characteristics between pre-mortem and post-mortem social media content, and reported machine learning (ML) classifiers that achieved high performance in automatically detecting deaths of social networking site users from posts associated with their profiles.

By Nuhu Ibrahim, Riza Batista-Navarro
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 27

KESA: A Knowledge Enhanced Approach For Sentiment Analysis

The paper introduces KESA, a knowledge‑enhanced approach for sentence‑level sentiment analysis that incorporates sentiment knowledge through two auxiliary tasks: sentiment word cloze and conditional sentiment prediction. These tasks use prior sentiment polarity to guide the selection of sentiment words and the prediction of overall sentiment, respectively, and explore label combination methods to unify multiple label types. Experiments show that KESA consistently outperforms pre‑trained models and complements existing knowledge‑enhanced post‑training methods.

By Qinghua Zhao, Shuai Ma, Shuo Ren
arXiv AI
Oct 1

BARRAC: Adaptation of an English Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis Approach for Classification Tasks in Arabic Dialects

The paper introduces BARRAC, a method that adapts an English aspect‑based sentiment analysis framework for Arabic dialect classification tasks. It replaces English consumer‑review attribute pools with Arabic linguistic markers for sentiment, sarcasm, and dialect identification, and swaps noisy self‑training for a two‑stage training process. Evaluated on five Arabic dialect datasets, BARRAC achieves a mean macro‑F1 of 63.93%, surpassing the best few‑label state‑of‑the‑art by 3% and outperforming GPT‑4o on four of the five tasks, while error analysis highlights remaining challenges.

By Ali Almutairi, Gelareh Mohammadi, Imran Razzak, Aditya Joshi