nlpBDpatriots at BLP-2023 Task 2: A Transfer Learning Approach to Bangla
  Sentiment Analysis
Dhiman Goswami Md Nishat Raihan Sadiya Sayara Chowdhury Puspo Marcos Zampieri
In this paper, we discuss the nlpBDpatriots entry to the shared task on
Sentiment Analysis of Bangla Social Media Posts organized at the first workshop
on Bangla Language Processing (BLP) co-located with EMNLP. The main objective
of this task is to identify the polarity of social media content using a Bangla
dataset annotated with positive, neutral, and negative labels provided by the
shared task organizers. Our best system for this task is a transfer learning
approach with data augmentation which achieved a micro F1 score of 0.71. Our
best system ranked 12th among 30 teams that participated in the competition.