Dataset Card for "rumoureval_2019"

Dataset Summary

Stance prediction task in English. The goal is to predict whether a given reply to a claim either supports, denies, questions, or simply comments on the claim. Ran as a SemEval task in 2019.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

• SemEval 2019 task 1

Languages

English of various origins, bcp47: en

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

polstance

An example of 'train' looks as follows.

{
    'id': '0', 
    'source_text': 'Appalled by the attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris, 10 - probably journalists - now confirmed dead. An attack on free speech everywhere.', 
    'reply_text': '@m33ryg @tnewtondunn @mehdirhasan Of course it is free speech, that\'s the definition of "free speech" to openly make comments or draw a pic!', 
    'label': 3
}

Data Fields

• id: a string feature.
• source_text: a string expressing a claim/topic.
• reply_text: a string to be classified for its stance to the source.
• label: a class label representing the stance the text expresses towards the target. Full tagset with indices:

                            0: "support",
                            1: "deny",
                            2: "query",
                            3: "comment"

• quoteID: a string of the internal quote ID.
• party: a string describing the party affiliation of the quote utterer at the time of utterance.
• politician: a string naming the politician who uttered the quote.

Data Splits

name	instances
train	7 005
dev	2 425
test	2 945

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

Who are the source language producers?

Twitter users

Annotations

Annotation process

Detailed in Analysing How People Orient to and Spread Rumours in Social Media by Looking at Conversational Threads

Who are the annotators?

Personal and Sensitive Information

Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

Discussion of Biases

Other Known Limitations

Additional Information

Dataset Curators

The dataset is curated by the paper's authors.

Licensing Information

The authors distribute this data under Creative Commons attribution license, CC-BY 4.0.

Citation Information

@inproceedings{gorrell-etal-2019-semeval,
    title = "{S}em{E}val-2019 Task 7: {R}umour{E}val, Determining Rumour Veracity and Support for Rumours",
    author = "Gorrell, Genevieve  and
      Kochkina, Elena  and
      Liakata, Maria  and
      Aker, Ahmet  and
      Zubiaga, Arkaitz  and
      Bontcheva, Kalina  and
      Derczynski, Leon",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation",
    month = jun,
    year = "2019",
    address = "Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/S19-2147",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/S19-2147",
    pages = "845--854",
}

Contributions

Author-added dataset @leondz