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100,000+ Movie Reviews from Kazakhstan: Russian, Kazakh, and Code-Switched Texts

arXiv 2605.08600 ↗First posted 9 May 2026cs.CLcited by 0

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Abstract (arXiv)

We present a new publicly available corpus of 100,502 movie reviews from Kazakhstan collected from kino.kz, spanning 2001-2025 and covering 4,943 unique titles. The dataset is multilingual, consisting mainly of Russian reviews alongside Kazakh and code-switched texts. Reviews are manually annotated for language and sentiment polarity, and 11,309 reviews additionally contain explicit user-provided ratings. We define two sentiment tasks -- three-way polarity classification and five-class score classification -- and benchmark classical BoW/TF-IDF baselines against multilingual transformer models (mBERT, XLM-RoBERTa, RemBERT). Experimental results show that transformer models consistently outperform classical baselines on polarity classification, while score classification remains challenging under leakage-controlled evaluation due to severe class imbalance and subtle distinctions between adjacent rating levels.

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  1. 2019RoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approachcited by 13,266
  2. 2019Unsupervised Cross-lingual Representation Learning at Scalecited by 3,907
  3. 2020SemEval-2020 Task 9: Overview of Sentiment Analysis of Code-Mixed Tweetscited by 62
  4. 2024KazSAnDRA: Kazakh Sentiment Analysis Dataset of Reviews and Attitudescited by 5

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