/news-ro-offense

a novel Romanian language dataset for offensive message detection with manually annotated comment from a local Romanian news website (stiri de cluj) into five classes

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News-RO-Offense

a novel Romanian language dataset for offensive message detection with manually annotated comment from a local Romanian news website (stiri de cluj) into five classes:

  • non-offensive
  • targeted insults
  • racist
  • homophobic
  • sexist

Resulting in 4052 annotated messages

Corpus statistics

Class Label # examples Percentage
Non-offensive 0 2682 66.19%
Targeted insult 1 777 19.18%
Racist 2 252 6.22%
Homophobic 3 186 4.59%
Sexist 4 155 3.82%
TOTAL 4052

Data structure

comments.csv

Csv containing all annotated comments (Fields comment_text and LABEL)

additionally, all comments have the article_id for the originating article and, if they were a reply to another comment, the reply-to comment_id

articles.csv

contains all 160 articles that were scraped for comments. The available fields are - Publishing Date, Article Title, Article Tags list and Article content

Paper citation

@inproceedings{cojocaru2022news-ro-offense,
  title={News-RO-Offense - A Romanian Offensive Language Dataset and Baseline Models Centered on News Article Comments},
  author={Cojocaru, Andreea and Paraschiv, Andrei and Dascalu, Mihai},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the international conference on human-computer interaction-RoCHI 2022},
  pages={--},
  year={2022}
}