Advancing Subjectivity Detection in Bengali News Articles Using Transformer Models with POS-Aware Features

Distinguishing fact from opinion in text is a nuanced but essential task, particularly in news articles where subjectivity can influence interpretation and reception.Identifying whether content is subjective or objective is critical for sentiment analysis, media bias detection, and content moderation.However, progress in this area has been limited for low-resource languages such as Bengali due to a lack of benchmark datasets and tools.To address these constraints, this work presents BeNSD (Bengali News Subjectivity Detection), a novel dataset of 8,655 Bengali news article texts, along with an enhanced transformer-based architecture (POS-Aware-MuRIL) that integrates partsof-speech (POS) features with MuRIL embeddings at the input level to provide richer contextual representation for subjectivity detection.A range of baseline models is evaluated, and the proposed architecture achieves…