Corpus repository for Kurrek, J., Saleem, H. M., & Ruths, D. (2020, November). Towards a Comprehensive Taxonomy and Large-Scale Annotated Corpus for Online Slur Usage. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (pp. 138-149). You can read it here.
CONTENT WARNING: This corpus contains content that is racist, transphobic, homophobic, and offensive in many other ways. Please use responsibly.
This corpus consists of 40,000 annotated Reddit comments. For each comment the following details are included.
| FIELD | INFO |
|---|---|
| id | STR. ID to the Reddit comment. |
| link_id | STR. ID to the Reddit post the comment was made in. |
| parent_id | STR. ID to the parent. Prefix t1_ if the parent is another comment. Prefix t3_ if it is a post. |
| score | INT. Score the comment received. |
| subreddit | STR. Subreddit the comment was made. |
| author | STR. The author of the comment. |
| slur | STR. Slur in the comment. |
| body | STR. Body of the comment. |
| disagreement | BOOLEAN. True if the two annotators did not agree on the label. |
| gold_label | STR. Final label for the comment. |
Each comment was annotated into one of the following five labels. The annotation guide provides additional information on these labels.
| LABEL | INFO | FREQ |
|---|---|---|
| DEG | Derogatory | 20531 |
| NDG | Non Derogatory Non Appropriative | 16729 |
| HOM | Homonym | 1998 |
| APR | Appropriative | 553 |
| CMP | Noise | 189 |
Please cite our paper in any published work that uses this corpus.
@inproceedings{kurrek-etal-2020-towards,
title = "Towards a Comprehensive Taxonomy and Large-Scale Annotated Corpus for Online Slur Usage",
author = "Kurrek, Jana and Saleem, Haji Mohammad and Ruths, Derek",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms",
month = "Nov",
year = "2020",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.alw-1.17",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.alw-1.17",
pages = "138--149",
}