Emotion Analysis of Tweets Banning Education in Afghanistan
Mohammad Ali Hussiny Lilja Øvrelid
This paper introduces the first emotion annotated dataset for the Dari
variant of Persian spoken in Afghanistan. The LetHerLearn dataset contains
7,600 tweets posted in reaction to the Taliban ban of women rights to education
in 2022 and has been manually annotated according to Ekman emotion categories.
We here detail the data collection and annotation process, present relevant
dataset statistics as well as initial experiments on the resulting dataset,
benchmarking a number of different neural architectures for the task of Dari
emotion classification.