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Ilan Price
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2020
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Informatics Engineering
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We present a new dataset of approximately 44000 comments labeled by crowdworkers. Each comment is labelled as either healthy or unhealthy, in addition to binary labels for the presence of six potentially unhealthy sub-attributes: (1) hostile; (2) antagonistic, insulting, provocative or trolling; (3) dismissive; (4) condescending or patronising; (5) sarcastic; and/or (6) an unfair generalisation. Each label also has an associated confidence score. We argue that there is a need for datasets which enable research based on a broad notion of unhealthy online conversation. We build this typology to encompass a substantial proportion of the individual comments which contribute to unhealthy online conversation. For some of these attributes, this is the first publicly available dataset of this scale. We explore the quality of the dataset, present some summary statistics and initial models to illustrate the utility of this data, and highlight limitations and directions for further research.
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