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ElSherief et al. Hate Speech Instigators and Their Targets Dataset from Twitter

Dataset of hate speech and targets from Twitter collected through a multi-step classification process and annotated through CrowdFlower. 92.8% agreement among the annotators for hateful/not and 82.6% agreement for whether targetted at a person. The posts are sampled by different "hate" keywords and hate speech categories.

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Paper Authors ElSherief, M., Nilizadeh, S., Nguyen, D., Vigna, G. and Belding, E.
Author contact email ElSherief, M., Nilizadeh, S., Nguyen, D., Vigna, G. and Belding, E.
Publication / paper reference ElSherief, M., Nilizadeh, S., Nguyen, D., Vigna, G. and Belding, E., 2018. Peer to Peer Hate: Hate Speech Instigators and Their Targets. In: Proceedings of the Twelfth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2018). Santa Barbara, California: University of California, pp.52-61.
Publication / paper link https://aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM18/paper/view/17905/16996
Publication Year
Dataset about page https://github.com/mayelsherif/hate_speech_icwsm18
Approved
Language(s) covered English
Source data platform(s) Twitter
Phenomena annotated person- & group-directed hate speech
Level of instances Single comment / post
Data statement link N/A
Total number of instances in dataset 27,330
Proportion of positive/abusive instances 0.98
Submitter Philine Zeinert
Submitter Email phze@itu.dk
State active