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---
annotations_creators:
- expert-generated
language_creators:
- found
language:
- da
license:
- cc-by-4.0
multilinguality:
- monolingual
size_categories:
- n<1K
source_datasets:
- original
task_categories:
- text-classification
task_ids:
- sentiment-analysis
paperswithcode_id: polstance
pretty_name: Political Stance for Danish
tags:
- stance-detection
---
# Dataset Card for "polstance"
## 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/politicalstanceindanish/](https://stromberg.ai/publication/politicalstanceindanish/)
- **Repository:** [https://github.com/StrombergNLP/Political-Stance-in-Danish/](https://github.com/StrombergNLP/Political-Stance-in-Danish/)
- **Paper:** [https://aclanthology.org/W19-6121/](https://aclanthology.org/W19-6121/)
- **Point of Contact:** [Leon Derczynski](https://github.com/leondz)
- **Size of downloaded dataset files:** 548 KB
- **Size of the generated dataset:** 222 KB
- **Total amount of disk used:** 770 KB
### Dataset Summary
Political stance in Danish. Examples represent statements by
politicians and are annotated for, against, or neutral to a given topic/article.
### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
*
### Languages
Danish, bcp47: `da-DK`
## Dataset Structure
### Data Instances
#### polstance
An example of 'train' looks as follows.
```
{
'id': '0',
'topic': 'integration',
'quote': 'Der kunne jeg godt tænke mig, at der stod mere eksplicit, at de (landene, red.) skal bekæmpe menneskesmuglere og tage imod deres egne borgere',
'label': 2,
'quoteID': '516',
'party': 'Det Konservative Folkeparti',
'politician': 'Naser Khader',
}
```
### Data Fields
- `id`: a `string` feature.
- `topic`: a `string` expressing a topic.
- `quote`: a `string` to be classified for its stance to the topic.
- `label`: a class label representing the stance the text expresses towards the target. Full tagset with indices:
```
0: "against",
1: "neutral",
2: "for",
```
- `quoteID`: a `string` of the internal quote ID.
- `party`: a `string` describing the party affiliation of the quote utterer at the time of utterance.
- `politician`: a `string` naming the politician who uttered the quote.
### Data Splits
| name |train|
|---------|----:|
|polstance|900 sentences|
## Dataset Creation
### Curation Rationale
Collection of quotes from politicians to allow detecting how political quotes orient to issues.
### Source Data
#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization
The data is taken from proceedings of the Danish parliament, the Folketing - [ft.dk](https://ft.dk).
#### Who are the source language producers?
Danish polticians
### Annotations
#### Annotation process
Annotators labelled comments for being against, neutral, or for a specified topic
#### Who are the annotators?
Danish native speakers, 20s, male, studying Software Design.
### Personal and Sensitive Information
The data was public at the time of collection and will remain open public record by law in Denmark.
## Considerations for Using the Data
### Social Impact of Dataset
### Discussion of Biases
### Other Known Limitations
The above limitations apply.
## Additional Information
### Dataset Curators
The dataset is curated by the paper's authors.
### Licensing Information
The authors distribute this data under Creative Commons attribution license, CC-BY 4.0.
### Citation Information
```
@inproceedings{lehmann2019political,
title={Political Stance in Danish},
author={Lehmann, Rasmus and Derczynski, Leon},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics},
pages={197--207},
year={2019}
}
```
### Contributions
Author-added dataset [@leondz](https://github.com/leondz)