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Main Authors: Sitoula, Sameer, Shahi, Tej Bahadur, Bhatt, Laxmi Prasad, Pokhrel, Anisha, Neupane, Arjun
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.22823
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author Sitoula, Sameer
Shahi, Tej Bahadur
Bhatt, Laxmi Prasad
Pokhrel, Anisha
Neupane, Arjun
author_facet Sitoula, Sameer
Shahi, Tej Bahadur
Bhatt, Laxmi Prasad
Pokhrel, Anisha
Neupane, Arjun
contents Social media (SM) platforms (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit) are increasingly leveraged to share opinions and emotions, specifically during challenging events, such as natural disasters, pandemics, and political elections, and joyful occasions like festivals and celebrations. Among the SM platforms, Reddit provides a unique space for its users to anonymously express their experiences and thoughts on sensitive issues such as health and daily life. In this work, we present a novel dataset, called NepEMO, for multi-label emotion (MLE) and sentiment classification (SC) on the Nepali subreddit post. We curate and build a manually annotated dataset of 4,462 posts (January 2019- June 2025) written in English, Romanised Nepali and Devanagari script for five emotions (fear, anger, sadness, joy, and depression) and three sentiment classes (positive, negative, and neutral). We perform a detailed analysis of posts to capture linguistic insights, including emotion trends, co-occurrence of emotions, sentiment-specific n-grams, and topic modelling using Latent Dirichlet Allocation and TF-IDF keyword extraction. Finally, we compare various traditional machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL), and transformer models for MLE and SC tasks. The result shows that transformer models consistently outperform the ML and DL models for both tasks.
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spellingShingle NepEMO: A Multi-Label Emotion and Sentiment Analysis on Nepali Reddit with Linguistic Insights and Temporal Trends
Sitoula, Sameer
Shahi, Tej Bahadur
Bhatt, Laxmi Prasad
Pokhrel, Anisha
Neupane, Arjun
Computation and Language
Social media (SM) platforms (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit) are increasingly leveraged to share opinions and emotions, specifically during challenging events, such as natural disasters, pandemics, and political elections, and joyful occasions like festivals and celebrations. Among the SM platforms, Reddit provides a unique space for its users to anonymously express their experiences and thoughts on sensitive issues such as health and daily life. In this work, we present a novel dataset, called NepEMO, for multi-label emotion (MLE) and sentiment classification (SC) on the Nepali subreddit post. We curate and build a manually annotated dataset of 4,462 posts (January 2019- June 2025) written in English, Romanised Nepali and Devanagari script for five emotions (fear, anger, sadness, joy, and depression) and three sentiment classes (positive, negative, and neutral). We perform a detailed analysis of posts to capture linguistic insights, including emotion trends, co-occurrence of emotions, sentiment-specific n-grams, and topic modelling using Latent Dirichlet Allocation and TF-IDF keyword extraction. Finally, we compare various traditional machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL), and transformer models for MLE and SC tasks. The result shows that transformer models consistently outperform the ML and DL models for both tasks.
title NepEMO: A Multi-Label Emotion and Sentiment Analysis on Nepali Reddit with Linguistic Insights and Temporal Trends
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.22823