Dataset Card for X-Stance

Dataset Summary

The x-stance dataset contains more than 150 political questions, and 67k comments written by candidates on those questions. The comments are partly German, partly French and Italian. The data have been extracted from the Swiss voting advice platform Smartvote.

Languages

German, French/Italian

Dataset Structure

Data Instances

An example of 'train' looks as follows:

{
    'id': '0', 
    'question': 'Eine Volksinitiative fordert, dass die Gesamtfläche der Bauzonen in der Schweiz für die nächsten 20 Jahre auf dem heutigen Stand begrenzt wird. Befürworten Sie dieses Anliegen?', 
    'comment': 'Eine fixe Grösse verbieten, ist das falsche Mittel', '
    'label': 0
}

Data Fields

• id : a 'string' feature.
• question : a 'string' expressing a claim/topic.
• comment : a 'string' to be classified for its stance to the source.
• label :

            0: "AGAINST",
            1: "FAVOR"

Data Splits

languages	name	instances
de	train	33850
de	validation	2871
de	test	11891
fr	train	11790
fr	validation	1055
fr	test	5814

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

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Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

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Who are the source language producers?

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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

MIT License

Citation Information

@article{vamvas2020x,
  title={X-stance: A multilingual multi-target dataset for stance detection},
  author={Vamvas, Jannis and Sennrich, Rico},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.08385},
  year={2020}
}

Contributions

Thanks to mkonxd , leondz for adding this dataset.