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---
annotations_creators:
- crowdsourced
language_creators:
- found
languages:
- ar
licenses:
- cc-by-4.0
multilinguality:
- monolingual
pretty_name: ara-stance
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- text-classification
task_ids:
- fact-checking
---

# Dataset Card for AraStance
## Table of Contents
- [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)
- [Dataset Description](#dataset-description)
  - [Dataset Summary](#dataset-summary)
  - [Supported Tasks and Leaderboards](#supported-tasks-and-leaderboards)
  - [Languages](#languages)
- [Dataset Structure](#dataset-structure)
  - [Data Instances](#data-instances)
  - [Data Fields](#data-fields)
  - [Data Splits](#data-splits)
- [Dataset Creation](#dataset-creation)
  - [Curation Rationale](#curation-rationale)
  - [Source Data](#source-data)
  - [Annotations](#annotations)
  - [Personal and Sensitive Information](#personal-and-sensitive-information)
- [Considerations for Using the Data](#considerations-for-using-the-data)
  - [Social Impact of Dataset](#social-impact-of-dataset)
  - [Discussion of Biases](#discussion-of-biases)
  - [Other Known Limitations](#other-known-limitations)
- [Additional Information](#additional-information)
  - [Dataset Curators](#dataset-curators)
  - [Licensing Information](#licensing-information)
  - [Citation Information](#citation-information)
  - [Contributions](#contributions)

## Dataset Description
- **Repository:** [https://github.com/Tariq60/arastance](https://github.com/Tariq60/arastance)
- **Paper:** [http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2624/paper9.pdf](http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2624/paper9.pdf), [https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.08385](https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.08385)
- **Point of Contact:** [Jannis Vamvas](https://twitter.com/j_vamvas)

### Dataset Summary
The AraStance dataset contains true and false claims, where each claim is paired with one or more documents. Each claim–article pair has a stance label: agree, disagree, discuss, or unrelated.

### Languages
Arabic

## Dataset Structure
### Data Instances
```
{
    'id': '0', 
    'question': 'Eine Volksinitiative fordert, dass die Gesamtfläche der Bauzonen in der Schweiz für die nächsten 20 Jahre auf dem heutigen Stand begrenzt wird. Befürworten Sie dieses Anliegen?', 
    'comment': 'Eine fixe Grösse verbieten, ist das falsche Mittel', '
    'label': 0
}
```
### Data Fields
- `id`: a 'string' feature.
- `question`: a 'string' expressing a claim/topic.
- `comment`: a 'string' to be classified for its stance to the source.
- `label`: 
```
            0: "AGAINST",
            1: "FAVOR"
```
### Data Splits
|languages|name|instances|
|---------|----|----:|
|de|train|33850|
|de|validation|2871|
|de|test|11891|
|fr|train|11790|
|fr|validation|1055|
|fr|test|5814|
## Dataset Creation
### Curation Rationale
[More Information Needed]
### Source Data
#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization
[More Information Needed]
#### Who are the source language producers?
[More Information Needed]
### Annotations
#### Annotation process
[More Information Needed]
#### Who are the annotators?
[More Information Needed]
### Personal and Sensitive Information
[More Information Needed]
## Considerations for Using the Data
### Social Impact of Dataset
[More Information Needed]
### Discussion of Biases
[More Information Needed]
### Other Known Limitations
[More Information Needed]
## Additional Information
### Dataset Curators
[More Information Needed]
### Licensing Information
[MIT License](https://github.com/ZurichNLP/xstance/blob/master/LICENSE)
### Citation Information
```
@article{arastance,
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.13559},
  author = {Alhindi, Tariq and Alabdulkarim, Amal and Alshehri, Ali and Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad and Nakov, Preslav},
  title = {AraStance: A Multi-Country and Multi-Domain Dataset of Arabic Stance Detection for Fact Checking},
  year = {2021},  
  copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International}
}
```

### Contributions
Thanks to [mkonxd](https://github.com/mkonxd), [leondz](https://github.com/leondz) for adding this dataset.