# GeeSanBhava: Sentiment Tagged Sinhala Music Video Comment Data Set

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18146 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.18146/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 9 of its 24 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 22 Nov 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 9 of 9)

- [Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.10084/) (2019)
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- [Distributed Representations of Words and Phrases and their Compositionality](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1310.4546/) (2013)
- [Enriching Word Vectors with Subword Information](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1607.04606/) (2016)
- [Survey on Publicly Available Sinhala Natural Language Processing Tools and Research](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1906.02358/) (2019)
- [BERTifying Sinhala -- A Comprehensive Analysis of Pre-trained Language Models for Sinhala Text Classification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.07864/) (2022)
- [Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis Techniques: A Comparative Study](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.02834/) (2024)
- [Instruct-DeBERTa: A Hybrid Approach for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis on Textual Reviews](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.13202/) (2024)
- [Linguistic Analysis of Sinhala YouTube Comments on Sinhala Music Videos: A Dataset Study](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.18633/) (2025)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Shifting from Discrete to Continuous Reference Data: QSM-Derived Horizontal Tree Biomass Distribution for Deep Learning Biomass Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.05260/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This study introduce GeeSanBhava, a high-quality data set of Sinhala song comments extracted from YouTube manually tagged using Russells Valence-Arousal model by three independent human annotators. The human annotators achieve a substantial inter-annotator agreement (Fleiss kappa = 84.96%). The analysis revealed distinct emotional profiles for different songs, highlighting the importance of comment based emotion mapping. The study also addressed the challenges of comparing comment-based and song-based emotions, mitigating biases inherent in user-generated content. A number of Machine learning and deep learning models were pre-trained on a related large data set of Sinhala News comments in order to report the zero-shot result of our Sinhala YouTube comment data set. An optimized Multi-Layer Perceptron model, after extensive hyperparameter tuning, achieved a ROC-AUC score of 0.887. The model is a three-layer MLP with a configuration of 256, 128, and 64 neurons. This research contributes a valuable annotated dataset and provides insights for future work in Sinhala Natural Language Processing and music emotion recognition.
