---
license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
task_categories:
- text-classification
language:
- bn
pretty_name: Ben-Sarc
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
tags:
- sarcasm
- bengali sarcasm
- bengali sarcasm detection
source_datasets:
- original
---
# Dataset Card for 'Ben-Sarc'

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This repository contains the dataset of the paper titled [**"Ben-Sarc: A Self-Annotated Corpus for Sarcasm Detection from Bengali Social Media Comments and Its Baseline Evaluation"**](https://doi.org/10.1017/nlp.2024.11) published in [***Natural Language Processing**(formerly known as Natural Language Engineering)*](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering) journal by [*Cambridge University Press*](https://www.cambridge.org/).

## Dataset Details

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We are releasing a large-scale self-annotated Bengali corpus for sarcasm detection research problem in the Bengali language named `Ben-Sarc` containing 25,636 comments, manually collected from different public Facebook pages and evaluated by external evaluators. 


### Dataset Sources 

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- **Repository:** [https://github.com/sanzanalora/Ben-Sarc](https://github.com/sanzanalora/Ben-Sarc)
- **Paper:** [Ben-Sarc: A Self-Annotated Corpus for Sarcasm Detection from Bengali Social Media Comments and Its Baseline Evaluation](https://engrxiv.org/index.php/engrxiv/preprint/view/2102)
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## Uses -->

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### Direct Use

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The `Ben-Sarc` corpus can be used any kind of used for low-resource NLP applications.

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## Dataset Structure
### Data Instances
The `Ben-Sarc` dataset is in `.xlsx` format. One example from the `Ben-Sarc` dataset is given below:
```
|----|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------|
| id |                                           Text                                                             | Polarity |
|----|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------|
| 589|তোমারে ভাবিয়া সারারাত জাগিয়া ঘুম মোর হয়েছে নষ্ট বুকের বামপাশে চিনচিন ব্যাথা করে একি গ্যাস্ট্রিক না প্রেম হচ্ছে না স্পষ্ট ।          |    1     |
|----|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------|
```


### Data Fields

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-  `id`: A string representing the text ID.
-  `Text` : A string containing the text.
-  `Polarity` : A number containing the polarity of the text

`Polarity` of the `Ben-Sarc` is defined as follows:
```
            `0` indicates Non-Sarcastic Text
            
            `1` indicates Sarcastic Text
```


## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

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[Detailed in the paper](https://engrxiv.org/index.php/engrxiv/preprint/view/2102)

### Source Data

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[Detailed in the paper](https://engrxiv.org/index.php/engrxiv/preprint/view/2102)

#### Data Collection and Processing

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[Detailed in the paper](https://engrxiv.org/index.php/engrxiv/preprint/view/2102)

#### Who are the source data producers?

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[Detailed in the paper](https://engrxiv.org/index.php/engrxiv/preprint/view/2102)

### Annotations 

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[Detailed in the paper](https://engrxiv.org/index.php/engrxiv/preprint/view/2102)

#### Annotation process

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[Detailed in the paper](https://engrxiv.org/index.php/engrxiv/preprint/view/2102)

#### Who are the annotators?

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[Detailed in the paper](https://engrxiv.org/index.php/engrxiv/preprint/view/2102)

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## Bias, Risks, and Limitations-->

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## Additional Information

- **Funded by:** [Non-Funded Research]
- **Language(s) (NLP):** [Bengali]
- **License:** Contents of this repository are restricted to only non-commercial research purposes under the [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). 
## Citation 

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If you use our dataset, please cite the following paper:
```
@article{Lora_Shahariar_Nazmin_Rahman_Rahman_Bhuiyan_Shah_2024,
  title={Ben-Sarc: A self-annotated corpus for sarcasm detection from Bengali social media comments and its baseline evaluation},
  DOI={10.1017/nlp.2024.11},
  journal={Natural Language Processing},
  author={Lora, Sanzana Karim and Shahariar, G. M. and Nazmin, Tamanna and Rahman, Noor Nafeur and Rahman, Rafsan and Bhuiyan, Miyad and Shah, Faisal Muhammad},
  year={2024},
  pages={1–26}} 

```



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