Masaki Itabashi

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2026

Identifying constructive comments from user-generated content is important for improving information discovery and discussion quality on platforms such as YouTube. However, existing resources focus predominantly on English news comments, leaving short-form video platforms underexplored despite their distinct characteristics: comments are shorter, more reactive, and not well captured by popularity signals. In this work, we introduce the first Japanese YouTube Shorts dataset for constructive comment extraction, featuring multi-annotator labels that preserve naturally occurring disagreement. We also develop a real-time system that surfaces constructive comments from a noisy comment stream, evaluated in a preliminary user study. To train under noisy annotation conditions, we combine self-training with high-confidence pseudo-labels and active learning. Experiments show that iterative data expansion improves performance, while our compact task-specific model achieves the highest PR-AUC point estimate among the evaluated systems. These findings demonstrate the value of dataset construction and targeted training for constructive comment extraction in realistic settings. Our dataset and code are available at https://github.com/nlp-hayashi/japanese-youtube-constructive-comments