In this repo, we release the annotation of documents from two conspiracies: Sandry Hook and COVID. The documents are from the Language of Conspiracy Corpus (LOCO). We developed an annotation scheme that will allow us to distinguish between documents containing conspiracy language and documents that do not contain any conspiracy content or that propagate conspiracy theories via misinformation. For the details, please see our paper: How "Loco" is the LOCO Corpus? Annotating the Language of Conspiracy Theories.
If you use our annotation results, please cite the following papers:
@article{miani2021loco,
title={LOCO: The 88-million-word language of conspiracy corpus},
author={Miani, Alessandro and Hills, Thomas and Bangerter, Adrian},
journal={Behavior research methods},
pages={1--24},
year={2021},
publisher={Springer}
}
@inproceedings{mompelat2022loco,
title={How “Loco” is the LOCO Corpus? Annotating the Language of Conspiracy Theories},
author={Mompelat, Ludovic and Tian, Zuoyu and Kessler, Amanda and Luettgen, Matthew and Rajanala, Aaryana and K{\"u}bler, Sandra and Seelig, Michelle},
booktitle={LREC 2022 Workshop Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 20-25 June 2022},
pages={111--119},
year={2022}
}