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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.