Dataset Card for KanHope

Dataset Summary

KanHope dataset is a code-mixed Kannada-English dataset for hope speech detection. All texts are scraped from the comments section of YouTube. The dataset consists of 6,176 user-generated comments in code mixed Kannada scraped from YouTube and manually annotated as bearing hope speech or Not-hope speech.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

This task aims to detect Hope speech content of the code-mixed dataset of comments/posts in Dravidian Languages ( Kannada-English) collected from social media. The comment/post may contain more than one sentence, but the average sentence length of the corpora is 1. Each comment/post is annotated at the comment/post level. This dataset also has class imbalance problems depicting real-world scenarios.

Languages

Code-mixed text in Dravidian languages (Kannada-English).

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

An example from the Kannada dataset looks as follows:

text	label
��������� ��ͭ� heartly heltidini... plz avrigella namma nimmellara supprt beku	0 (Non_hope speech)
Next song gu kuda alru andre evaga yar comment madidera alla alrru like madi share madi nam industry na next level ge togond hogaona.	1 (Hope Speech)

Data Fields

Kannada

• text : Kannada-English code mixed comment.
• label : integer from either of 0 or 1 that corresponds to these values: "Non_hope Speech", "Hope Speech"

Data Splits

train	validation	test
Kannada	4941	618	617

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

Numerous methods have been developed to monitor the spread of negativity in modern years by eliminating vulgar, offensive, and fierce comments from social media platforms. However, there are relatively lesser amounts of study that converges on embracing positivity, reinforcing supportive and reassuring content in online forums.

Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

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Who are the source language producers?

Youtube users

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

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Discussion of Biases

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Other Known Limitations

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Additional Information

Dataset Curators

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Licensing Information

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Citation Information

@misc{hande2021hope,
      title={Hope Speech detection in under-resourced Kannada language}, 
      author={Adeep Hande and Ruba Priyadharshini and Anbukkarasi Sampath and Kingston Pal Thamburaj and Prabakaran Chandran and Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi},
      year={2021},
      eprint={2108.04616},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}

Contributions

Thanks to @adeepH for adding this dataset.