varieties of English

Despite large language models (LLMs) being known to exhibit bias against non-mainstream varieties, there are no known labeled datasets for sentiment analysis of English. To address this gap, we introduce BESSTIE, a benchmark for sentiment and sarcasm …

Existing benchmarks often fail to account for linguistic diversity, like language variants of English. In this paper, we share our experiences from our ongoing project of building a sentiment classification benchmark for three variants of English: …