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# Dataset Card for "Bajer"

## 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

- **Homepage:** [https://stromberg.ai/publication/aom/](https://stromberg.ai/publication/aom/)
- **Repository:** [https://github.com/StrombergNLP/Online-Misogyny-in-Danish-Bajer](https://github.com/StrombergNLP/Online-Misogyny-in-Danish-Bajer)
- **Paper:** [https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.247/](https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.247/)
- **Point of Contact:** [Leon Derczynski](https://github.com/leondz)
- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 7.29 MiB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 6.57 MiB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 13.85 MiB

### Dataset Summary

This is a high-quality dataset of annotated posts sampled from social 
media posts and annotated for misogyny. Danish language.

Online misogyny, a category of online abusive language, has serious and 
harmful social consequences. Automatic detection of misogynistic language 
online, while imperative, poses complicated challenges to both data 
gathering, data annotation, and bias mitigation, as this type of data is 
linguistically complex and diverse. 

See the accompanying ACL paper [Annotating Online Misogyny](https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.247/) for full details.

### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

* 

### Languages

Danish (`bcp47:da`)

## Dataset Structure

### Data Instances

#### Bajer

- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 7.29 MiB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 6.57 MiB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 13.85 MiB

An example of 'train' looks as follows.

```
{
  'id': '0', 
  'dataset_id': '0', 
  'label_id': '0', 
  'text': 'Tilfældigt hva, din XXXXXXXXXX 🤬🤬🤬', 
  'sampling': 'keyword_twitter', 
  'subtask_A': 1, 
  'subtask_B': 0, 
  'subtask_C1': 3, 
  'subtask_C2': 6
}
```


### Data Fields

- `id`: a `string` feature, unique identifier in this dataset.
- `dataset_id`: a `string` feature, internal annotation identifier.
- `label_id`: a `string` feature, internal annotation sequence number.
- `text`: a `string` of the text that's annotated.
- `sampling`: a `string` describing which sampling technique surfaced this message
- `subtask_A`: is the text abusive `ABUS` or not `NOT`? `0: NOT, 1: ABUS`
- `subtask_B`: for abusive text, what's the target - individual `IND`, group `GRP`, other `OTH`, or untargeted `UNT`? `0: IND, 1: GRP, 2: OTH, 3: UNT, 4: not applicable`
- `subtask_C1`: for group-targeted abuse, what's the group - misogynistic `SEX`, other `OTH`, or racist `RAC`? `0: SEX, 1: OTH, 2: RAC, 3: not applicable`
- `subtask_C2`: for misogyny, is it neosexist `NEOSEX`, discrediting `DISCREDIT`, normative stereotyping `NOR`, benevolent sexism `AMBIVALENT`, dominance `DOMINANCE`, or harassment `HARASSMENT`? `0: NEOSEX, 1: DISCREDIT, 2: NOR, 3: AMBIVALENT, 4: DOMINANCE, 5: HARASSMENT, 6: not applicable`


### Data Splits

|  name   |train|
|---------|----:|
|bajer|27880 sentences|

## Dataset Creation

### Curation Rationale

The goal was to collect data for developing an annotation schema of online misogyny.

Random sampling of text often results in scarcity of examples of specifically misogynistic content (e.g. (Wulczyn et al., 2017;
Founta et al., 2018)). Therefore, we used the common alternative of collecting data by using predefined keywords with a potentially high search hit
(e.g. Waseem and Hovy (2016)), and identifying
relevant user-profiles (e.g. (Anzovino et al., 2018))
and related topics (e.g. (Kumar et al., 2018)).

We searched for keywords (specific slurs, hashtags), that are known to occur in sexist posts. These
were defined by previous work, a slur list from
Reddit, and from interviews and surveys of online
misogyny among women. We also searched for
broader terms like “sex” or “women”, which do
not appear exclusively in a misogynistic context,
for example in the topic search, where we gathered
relevant posts and their comments from the social
media pages of public media. A complete list of
keywords can be found in the appendix.

Social media provides a potentially biased, but
broad snapshot of online human discourse, with
plenty of language and behaviours represented. Following best practice guidelines (Vidgen and Derczynski, 2020), we sampled from a language for
which there are no existing annotations of the target
phenomenon: Danish.

Different social media platforms attract different user groups and can exhibit domain-specific
language (Karan and Snajder ˇ , 2018). Rather than
choosing one platform (existing misogyny datasets
are primarily based on Twitter and Reddit (Guest
et al., 2021)), we sampled from multiple platforms:
Statista (2020) shows that the platform where most
Danish users are present is Facebook, followed
by Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and lastly, Reddit.
The dataset was sampled from Twitter, Facebook
and Reddit posts as plain text.

### Source Data

#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization

The dataset was sampled from Twitter, Facebook
and Reddit posts as plain text. Data was gathered based on: keyword-based search (i.e. purposive sampling); topic-based search; and content from specific users.

#### Who are the source language producers?

Danish-speaking social media users

### Annotations

#### Annotation process

In annotating our dataset, we built on the MATTER
framework (Pustejovsky and Stubbs, 2012) and use
the variation presented by Finlayson and Erjavec
(2017) (the MALER framework), where the Train & Test stages are replaced by Leveraging of annotations for one’s particular goal, in our case the
creation of a comprehensive taxonomy.

We created a set of guidelines for the annotators.
The annotators were first asked to read the guidelines and individually annotate about 150 different
posts, after which there was a shared discussion.
After this pilot round, the volume of samples per annotator was increased and every sample labeled by
2-3 annotators. When instances were ‘flagged’ or
annotators disagreed on them, they were discussed
during weekly meetings, and misunderstandings
were resolved together with the external facilitator. After round three, when reaching 7k annotated
posts (Figure 2), we continued with independent
annotations maintaining a 15% instance overlap
between randomly picked annotator pairs.

Management of annotator disagreement is an important part of the process design. Disagreements
can be solved by majority voting (Davidson et al.,
2017; Wiegand et al., 2019), labeled as abuse if at
least one annotator has labeled it (Golbeck et al.,
2017) or by a third objective instance (Gao and
Huang, 2017). Most datasets use crowdsourcing
platforms or a few academic experts for annotation
(Vidgen and Derczynski, 2020). Inter-annotatoragreement (IAA) and classification performance
are established as two grounded evaluation measurements for annotation quality (Vidgen and Derczynski, 2020). Comparing the performance of amateur annotators (while providing guidelines) with
expert annotators for sexism and racism annotation,
Waseem (2016) show that the quality of amateur
annotators is competitive with expert annotations
when several amateurs agree. Facing the trade-off
between training annotators intensely and the number of involved annotators, we continued with the
trained annotators and group discussions/ individual revisions for flagged content and disagreements
(Section 5.4).


#### Who are the annotators?

---|---
Gender|6 female, 2 male (8 total)
Age:| 5 <30; 3 ≥30
Ethnicity:| 5 Danish: 1 Persian, 1 Arabic, 1 Polish
Study/occupation: | Linguistics (2); Health/Software Design; Ethnography/Digital Design; Communication/Psychology; Anthropology/Broadcast Moderator; Ethnography/Climate Change; Film Artist

### Personal and Sensitive Information

Usernames and PII were stripped during annotation process by skipping content containing these and eliding it from the final dataset

## Considerations for Using the Data

### Social Impact of Dataset

The data contains abusive language. It may be possible to identify original speakers based on the content, so the data is only available for research purposes under a restrictive license and conditions. We hope that identifying sexism can help moderators. There is a possibility that the content here could be used to generate misogyny in Danish, which would place women in Denmark in an even more hostile environment, and for this reason data access is restricted and tracked.

### Discussion of Biases

We have taken pains to mitigate as many biases as we were aware of in this work.

**Selection biases:** Selection biases for abusive
language can be seen in the sampling of text, for instance when using keyword search (Wiegand et al.,
2019), topic dependency (Ousidhoum et al., 2020), users (Wiegand et al., 2019), domain (Wiegand
et al., 2019), time (Florio et al., 2020) and lack of
linguistic variety (Vidgen and Derczynski, 2020).

**Label biases:** Label biases can be caused by, for
instance, non-representative annotator selection,
lack in training/domain expertise, preconceived
notions, or pre-held stereotypes. These biases are
treated in relation to abusive language datasets
by several sources, e.g. general sampling and
annotators biases (Waseem, 2016; Al Kuwatly
et al., 2020), biases towards minority identity
mentions based for example on gender or race
(Davidson et al., 2017; Dixon et al., 2018; Park
et al., 2018; Davidson et al., 2019), and political
annotator biases (Wich et al., 2020). Other qualitative biases comprise, for instance, demographic
bias, over-generalization, topic exposure as social
biases (Hovy and Spruit, 2016).


We applied several measures to mitigate biases
occurring through the annotation design and execution: First, we selected labels grounded in existing,
peer-reviewed research from more than one field.
Second, we aimed for diversity in annotator profiles
in terms of age, gender, dialect, and background.
Third, we recruited a facilitator with a background
in ethnographic studies and provided intense annotator training. Fourth, we engaged in weekly group
discussions, iteratively improving the codebook
and integrating edge cases. Fifth, the selection of
platforms from which we sampled data is based on
local user representation in Denmark, rather than
convenience. Sixth, diverse sampling methods for
data collection reduced selection biases.

### Other Known Limitations

The data is absolutely NOT a reasonable or in any way stratified sample of social media text, so class prevalence/balance here says nothing about incidences of these phenomena in the wild. That said, we hypothesis that the distribution of types of misogyny in this data (subtask C2) is roughly representative of how misogyny presents on the studied platforms.

## Additional Information

### Dataset Curators

The dataset is curated by the paper's authors and the ethnographer-led annotation team.

### Licensing Information

The data is licensed under a restrictive usage agreement. [Apply for access here](https://forms.gle/MPdV8FG8EUuS1MdS6)

### Citation Information

```
@inproceedings{zeinert-etal-2021-annotating,
    title = "Annotating Online Misogyny",
    author = "Zeinert, Philine  and
      Inie, Nanna  and
      Derczynski, Leon",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = aug,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.247",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.247",
    pages = "3181--3197",
}
```


### Contributions

Author-added dataset [@leondz](https://github.com/leondz)