README.md

metadata

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
• Dataset Description
  • Dataset Summary
  • Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
  • Languages
• Dataset Structure
  • Data Instances
  • Data Fields
  • Data Splits
• Dataset Creation
  • Curation Rationale
  • Source Data
  • Annotations
  • Personal and Sensitive Information
• Considerations for Using the Data
  • Social Impact of Dataset
  • Discussion of Biases
  • Other Known Limitations
• Additional Information
  • Dataset Curators
  • Licensing Information
  • Citation Information
  • Contributions

Dataset Description

• Repository: https://github.com/Tariq60/arastance
• Paper: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2624/paper9.pdf, https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.08385
• Point of Contact: Jannis 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

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Who are the annotators?

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Personal and Sensitive Information

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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

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, leondz for adding this dataset.