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Is the "right answer" a classification based on US English with background knowledge of US cultural background, or is the goal to build a global sentiment data set?

You and OP ("the indians labelers don't know how to do it correctly") seem to want the former, so it would be good to state that goal upfront.

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I think it’s valid to question US-centrism broadly in datasets like this, but presumably that choice was made in selecting the Reddit sample, which is dominated by North American English.

A model is more useful if it approximates the speaker’s intent, not the listener’s interpretation. “Right” is complicated in language, but it’s hard to see how you’d use a model full of cross-cultural misunderstandings.

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