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Waseem and Hovy Racism and Sexism on Twitter Dataset

Dataset of racist and sexist tweets sampled from Twitter and labelled by a mix of expert annotators and activists. Tweets were sampled in 2016 over 2 months using keywords. Annotator agreement is Kappa of 0.84.

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Paper Authors Waseem, Z. and Hovy, D.
Author contact email Waseem, Z. and Hovy, D.
Publication / paper reference Waseem, Z. and Horvy, D., 2016. Hateful Symbols or Hateful People? Predictive Features for Hate Speech Detection on Twitter. In: Proceedings of the NAACL Student Research Workshop. San Diego, California: Association for Computational Linguistics, pp.88-93.
Publication / paper link https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N16-2013
Publication Year
Dataset about page https://github.com/ZeerakW/hatespeech
Approved
Language(s) covered English
Source data platform(s) Twitter
Phenomena annotated Racism, Sexism
Level of instances Single comment / post
Data statement link
Total number of instances in dataset 16,914 Tweets
Proportion of positive/abusive instances 0.32
Submitter Laila Sprejer
Submitter Email sprejerlaila@gmail.com
State active