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### Annotation
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We recruited a team of four annotators, two female and two male, each of them from one of the four most populated Nigerian ethnic groups -- Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo and Fulani.
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We followed a prescriptive approach by instructing annotators to strictly adhere to extensive annotation guidelines describing our taxonomy of hate speech (see reference paper for full guidelines).
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Tweets are annotated as belonging to one of three classes:
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- hateful (`2` in the `class` column) if it contains an attack on an individual or a group based on the perceived possession of a certain characteristic (e.g., gender, race)
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We recruited a team of four Nigerian annotators, two female and two male, each of them from one of the four most populated Nigerian ethnic groups -- Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo and Fulani.
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We followed a prescriptive approach by instructing annotators to strictly adhere to extensive annotation guidelines describing our taxonomy of hate speech (see reference paper for full guidelines).
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Tweets are annotated as belonging to one of three classes:
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- hateful (`2` in the `class` column) if it contains an attack on an individual or a group based on the perceived possession of a certain characteristic (e.g., gender, race)
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