@inproceedings{chierchiello-etal-2024-studying,
    title = "Studying Reactions to Stereotypes in Teenagers: an Annotated {I}talian Dataset",
    author = "Chierchiello, Elisa  and
      Bourgeade, Tom  and
      Ricci, Giacomo  and
      Bosco, Cristina  and
      D{'}Errico, Francesca",
    editor = "Kumar, Ritesh  and
      Ojha, Atul Kr.  and
      Malmasi, Shervin  and
      Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja  and
      Lahiri, Bornini  and
      Singh, Siddharth  and
      Ratan, Shyam",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Threat, Aggression {\&} Cyberbullying @ LREC-COLING-2024",
    month = may,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Torino, Italia",
    publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.trac-1.13",
    pages = "115--125",
    abstract = "The paper introduces a novel corpus collected in a set of experiments in Italian schools, annotated for the presence of stereotypes, and related categories. It consists of comments written by teenage students in reaction to fabricated fake news, designed to elicit prejudiced responses, by featuring racial stereotypes. We make use of an annotation scheme which takes into account the implicit or explicit nature of different instances of stereotypes, alongside their forms of discredit. We also annotate the stance of the commenter towards the news article, using a schema inspired by rumor and fake news stance detection tasks. Through this rarely studied setting, we provide a preliminary exploration of the production of stereotypes in a more controlled context. Alongside this novel dataset, we provide both quantitative and qualitative analyses of these reactions, to validate the categories used in their annotation. Through this work, we hope to increase the diversity of available data in the study of the propagation and the dynamics of negative stereotypes.",
}

The paper introduces a novel corpus collected in a set of experiments in Italian schools, annotated for the presence of stereotypes, and related categories. It consists of comments written by teenage students in reaction to fabricated fake news, designed to elicit prejudiced responses, by featuring racial stereotypes. We make use of an annotation scheme which takes into account the implicit or explicit nature of different instances of stereotypes, alongside their forms of discredit. We also annotate the stance of the commenter towards the news article, using a schema inspired by rumor and fake news stance detection tasks. Through this rarely studied setting, we provide a preliminary exploration of the production of stereotypes in a more controlled context. Alongside this novel dataset, we provide both quantitative and qualitative analyses of these reactions, to validate the categories used in their annotation. Through this work, we hope to increase the diversity of available data in the study of the propagation and the dynamics of negative stereotypes.
Chierchiello, Elisa Bourgeade, Tom Ricci, Giacomo Bosco, Cristina D{'}Errico, Francesca
Studying Reactions to Stereotypes in Teenagers: an Annotated Italian Dataset