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Lomat Haider Chowdhury1, Salekul Islam2, Swakkhar Shatabda2
1Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh.
Abstract:
Along with the traditional news publishing policies, news agencies now share news over the internet since people nowadays prefer reading news online. Moreover, news media maintain YouTube channels to publish visual stories. Readers comment to share their opinions below the corresponding news item. These news and comments have been a great source of information and research. However, there is a lack of research in the Bengali news context. This article presents a dataset containing 7,62,678 public comments and replies from 16,016 video news published from 2017 to 2023 from a renowned Bengali news YouTube channel. The data withholds 15 properties of news that include video URL, title, likes, views, date of publishing, hashtags, description, comment author, comment time, comment, likes in the comment, reply author, reply time, reply, and likes in the responses. To ensure privacy, the commentator's name is encoded in the dataset. The dataset is open to use for researchers at https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/3c3j3bkxvn/4. A translated file for the raw dataset is also included. This data may help scholars to identify patterns in public opinion and analyze how public opinion changes over time.
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