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---
annotations_creators:
- crowdsourced
language_creators:
- found
language:
- en
license:
- cc-by-4.0
multilinguality:
- monolingual
pretty_name: RumourEval 2019
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
source_datasets: []
task_categories:
- text-classification
task_ids:
- fact-checking
- text-classification-other-stance-detection
---
# Dataset Card for "rumoureval_2019"
## 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://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/19938](https://competitions.codalab.org/competitions/19938)
- **Repository:** [https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/RumourEval_2019_data/8845580](https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/RumourEval_2019_data/8845580)
- **Paper:** [https://aclanthology.org/S19-2147/](https://aclanthology.org/S19-2147/), [https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06683](https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06683)
- **Point of Contact:** [Leon Derczynski](https://github.com/leondz)
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- **Size of the generated dataset:**
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### Dataset Summary
Stance prediction task in English. The goal is to predict whether a given reply to a claim either supports, denies, questions, or simply comments on the claim. Ran as a SemEval task in 2019.
### Supported Tasks and Leaderboards
* SemEval 2019 task 1
### Languages
English of various origins, bcp47: `en`
## Dataset Structure
### Data Instances
#### polstance
An example of 'train' looks as follows.
```
{
'id': '0',
'source_text': 'Appalled by the attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris, 10 - probably journalists - now confirmed dead. An attack on free speech everywhere.',
'reply_text': '@m33ryg @tnewtondunn @mehdirhasan Of course it is free speech, that\'s the definition of "free speech" to openly make comments or draw a pic!',
'label': 3
}
```
### Data Fields
- `id`: a `string` feature.
- `source_text`: a `string` expressing a claim/topic.
- `reply_text`: a `string` to be classified for its stance to the source.
- `label`: a class label representing the stance the text expresses towards the target. Full tagset with indices:
```
0: "support",
1: "deny",
2: "query",
3: "comment"
```
- `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 |instances|
|---------|----:|
|train|7 005|
|dev|2 425|
|test|2 945|
## Dataset Creation
### Curation Rationale
### Source Data
#### Initial Data Collection and Normalization
#### Who are the source language producers?
Twitter users
### Annotations
#### Annotation process
Detailed in [Analysing How People Orient to and Spread Rumours in Social Media by Looking at Conversational Threads](https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/authors?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0150989)
#### Who are the annotators?
### Personal and Sensitive Information
## Considerations for Using the Data
### Social Impact of Dataset
### Discussion of Biases
### Other Known Limitations
## 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{gorrell-etal-2019-semeval,
title = "{S}em{E}val-2019 Task 7: {R}umour{E}val, Determining Rumour Veracity and Support for Rumours",
author = "Gorrell, Genevieve and
Kochkina, Elena and
Liakata, Maria and
Aker, Ahmet and
Zubiaga, Arkaitz and
Bontcheva, Kalina and
Derczynski, Leon",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation",
month = jun,
year = "2019",
address = "Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/S19-2147",
doi = "10.18653/v1/S19-2147",
pages = "845--854",
}
```
### Contributions
Author-added dataset [@leondz](https://github.com/leondz)