Annotating Sentiment and Irony in the Online Italian Political Debate on #labuonascuola

Published in Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), 2016

Recommended citation: Marco Antonio Stranisci, Cristina Bosco, Delia Irazú Hernández Farías, and Viviana Patti. 2016. Annotating Sentiment and Irony in the Online Italian Political Debate on #labuonascuola. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 2892–2899, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). https://aclanthology.org/L16-1462.pdf

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In this paper we present the TWitterBuonaScuola corpus (TW-BS), a novel Italian linguistic resource for Sentiment Analysis, developed with the main aim of analyzing the online debate on the controversial Italian political reform “Buona Scuola” (Good school), aimed at reorganizing the national educational and training systems. We describe the methodologies applied in the collection and annotation of data

Recommended citation: Marco Antonio Stranisci, Cristina Bosco, Delia Irazú Hernández Farías, and Viviana Patti. 2016. Annotating Sentiment and Irony in the Online Italian Political Debate on #labuonascuola. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’16), pages 2892–2899, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).