Two-Stage Bengali Sentiment Classification: Domain Adaptation Through Continual Learning and Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
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Title:Two-Stage Bengali Sentiment Classification: Domain Adaptation Through Continual Learning and Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
Abstract:Understanding sentiment in low-resource languages remains a key challenge for Natural Language Processing (NLP), particularly when domain-specific data is scarce. In this work, we present SentiBanglaBERT, a two-stage Bengali sentiment classification framework combining domain-adaptive continual pretraining and parameter-efficient fine-tuning. The approach enables contextual adaptation to news-style data while remaining computationally efficient through Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA). Beyond performance, SentiBanglaBERT integrates SHAP-based interpretability, offering linguistic insights into how Bengali morphological cues, such as negation suffixes and aspectual markers, influence sentiment predictions. Experiments demonstrate stable performance comparable to strong baselines while providing greater transparency and interpretive depth. This framework highlights the potential of domain-adaptive continual learning as a foundation for interpretable, resource-efficient NLP in morphologically rich, underrepresented languages.
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2608.01471 [cs.CL] |
| (or arXiv:2608.01471v1 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.01471
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| Related DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1109/iSAI-NLP66160.2025.11320544
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