language:en license:cc0-1.0 arxiv:1903.04561 region:us
The comments in this dataset come from an archive of the Civil Comments
platform, a commenting plugin for independent news sites. These public comments
were created from 2015 - 2017 and appeared on approximately 50 English-language
news sites across the world. When Civil Comments shut down in 2017, they chose
to make the public comments available in a lasting open archive to enable future
research. The original data, published on figshare, includes the public comment
text, some associated metadata such as article IDs, timestamps and
commenter-generated "civility" labels, but does not include user ids. Jigsaw
extended this dataset by adding additional labels for toxicity and identity
mentions. This data set is an exact replica of the data released for the
Jigsaw Unintended Bias in Toxicity Classification Kaggle challenge.  This
dataset is released under CC0, as is the underlying comment text.
@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-1903-04561,
  author    = {Daniel Borkan and
               Lucas Dixon and
               Jeffrey Sorensen and
               Nithum Thain and
               Lucy Vasserman},
  title     = {Nuanced Metrics for Measuring Unintended Bias with Real Data for Text
               Classification},
  journal   = {CoRR},
  volume    = {abs/1903.04561},
  year      = {2019},
  url       = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1903.04561},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  eprint    = {1903.04561},
  timestamp = {Sun, 31 Mar 2019 19:01:24 +0200},
  biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/bib/journals/corr/abs-1903-04561},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}
---
language:
- en
paperswithcode_id: null
pretty_name: CivilComments
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: text
    dtype: string
  - name: toxicity
    dtype: float32
  - name: severe_toxicity
    dtype: float32
  - name: obscene
    dtype: float32
  - name: threat
    dtype: float32
  - name: insult
    dtype: float32
  - name: identity_attack
    dtype: float32
  - name: sexual_explicit
    dtype: float32
  splits:
  - name: test
    num_bytes: 32073013
    num_examples: 97320
  - name: train
    num_bytes: 596835730
    num_examples: 1804874
  - name: validation
    num_bytes: 32326369
    num_examples: 97320
  download_size: 414947977
  dataset_size: 661235112
license: cc0-1.0
---

# Dataset Card for "civil_comments"

## Table of Contents
- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
  - [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
  - [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
  - [Languages](#languages)
- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
  - [Data Instances](#data-instances)
  - [Data Fields](#data-fields)
  - [Data Splits](#data-splits)
- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
  - [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)
  - [Source Data](#source-data)
  - [Annotations](#annotations)
  - [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)
- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)
  - [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset)
  - [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases)
  - [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
  - [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators)
  - [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
  - [Citation Information](#citation-information)
  - [Contributions](#contributions)

## Dataset Description

- **Homepage:** [https://www.kaggle.com/c/jigsaw-unintended-bias-in-toxicity-classification/data](https://www.kaggle.com/c/jigsaw-unintended-bias-in-toxicity-classification/data)
- **Repository:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
- **Paper:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
- **Point of Contact:** [More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)
- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 414.95 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 661.23 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 1.08 GB

### Dataset Summary

The comments in this dataset come from an archive of the Civil Comments
platform, a commenting plugin for independent news sites. These public comments
were created from 2015 - 2017 and appeared on approximately 50 English-language
news sites across the world. When Civil Comments shut down in 2017, they chose
to make the public comments available in a lasting open archive to enable future
research. The original data, published on figshare, includes the public comment
text, some associated metadata such as article IDs, timestamps and
commenter-generated "civility" labels, but does not include user ids. Jigsaw
extended this dataset by adding additional labels for toxicity and identity
mentions. This data set is an exact replica of the data released for the
Jigsaw Unintended Bias in Toxicity Classification Kaggle challenge.  This
dataset is released under CC0, as is the underlying comment text.

### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Languages

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

#### default

- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 414.95 MB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 661.23 MB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 1.08 GB

An example of 'validation' looks as follows.
```
{
    "identity_attack": 0.0,
    "insult": 0.0,
    "obscene": 0.0,
    "severe_toxicity": 0.0,
    "sexual_explicit": 0.0,
    "text": "The public test.",
    "threat": 0.0,
    "toxicity": 0.0
}
```

### Data Fields

The data fields are the same among all splits.

#### default
- `text`: a `string` feature.
- `toxicity`: a `float32` feature.
- `severe_toxicity`: a `float32` feature.
- `obscene`: a `float32` feature.
- `threat`: a `float32` feature.
- `insult`: a `float32` feature.
- `identity_attack`: a `float32` feature.
- `sexual_explicit`: a `float32` feature.

### Data Splits

| name  | train |validation|test |
|-------|------:|---------:|----:|
|default|1804874|     97320|97320|

## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Source Data

#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

#### Who are the source language producers?

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Annotations

#### Annotation process

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

#### Who are the annotators?

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Personal and Sensitive Information

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

## Considerations for Using the Data

### Social Impact of Dataset

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Discussion of Biases

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Other Known Limitations

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

## Additional Information

### Dataset Curators

[More Information Needed](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#how-to-contribute-to-the-dataset-cards)

### Licensing Information

This dataset is released under [CC0 1.0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).

### Citation Information

```

@article{DBLP:journals/corr/abs-1903-04561,
  author    = {Daniel Borkan and
               Lucas Dixon and
               Jeffrey Sorensen and
               Nithum Thain and
               Lucy Vasserman},
  title     = {Nuanced Metrics for Measuring Unintended Bias with Real Data for Text
               Classification},
  journal   = {CoRR},
  volume    = {abs/1903.04561},
  year      = {2019},
  url       = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1903.04561},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  eprint    = {1903.04561},
  timestamp = {Sun, 31 Mar 2019 19:01:24 +0200},
  biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/bib/journals/corr/abs-1903-04561},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}

```


### Contributions

Thanks to [@lewtun](https://github.com/lewtun), [@patrickvonplaten](https://github.com/patrickvonplaten), [@thomwolf](https://github.com/thomwolf) for adding this dataset.