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Title
BanglaVoice: A curated sentence-level annotated dataset for active, passive, and middle voice in Bangla with baseline classification benchmarks

Author
, LABONY SUR, Most. Hasna Hena, Tapasy Rabeya, ZAHARA AL ZARIN, Zannatul Mawa Koli,

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Abstract

BanglaVoice is a curated sentence-level dataset for grammatical voice analysis in Bangla, comprising 4397 annotated sentences categorized as Active (1459), Passive (1531), and Middle (1407). Each instance consists of a structurally complete clause containing a single dominant finite verb, accompanied by its English translation and a categorical voice label. Sentences were selectively compiled from publicly accessible Bangla digital sources published between 2023 and 2025 and underwent systematic cleaning, de-duplication, orthographic normalization, and UTF-8 standardization. Voice annotations were assigned using linguistically defined criteria and validated through multi-annotator agreement with majority voting. The dataset exhibits balanced class distribution and natural language characteristics, including a Zipfian rank–frequency distribution (s ≈ 0.98–0.99; R² ≈ 0.99) and substantial lexical diversity (3234 unique tokens). Baseline experiments using six supervised classifiers are also provided, with LinearSVC achieving 93.18% accuracy and 93.10% F1-score, establishing reproducible reference benchmarks for future Bangla grammatical voice classification research. BanglaVoice is released as an open-access resource to support morpho-syntactic research and voice-aware modelling in Bangla natural language processing.


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Data in Brief

Publication Year
2026

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