An Italian Twitter Corpus of Hate Speech against Immigrants

Published in Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), 2018

Recommended citation: Manuela Sanguinetti, Fabio Poletto, Cristina Bosco, Viviana Patti, and Marco Antonio Stranisci. 2018. An Italian Twitter Corpus of Hate Speech against Immigrants. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), Miyazaki, Japan. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). https://aclanthology.org/L18-1443.pdf

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The paper describes a recently-created Twitter corpus of about 6,000 tweets, annotated for hate speech against immigrants, and developed to be a reference dataset for an automatic system of hate speech monitoring

Recommended citation: Manuela Sanguinetti, Fabio Poletto, Cristina Bosco, Viviana Patti, and Marco Antonio Stranisci. 2018. An Italian Twitter Corpus of Hate Speech against Immigrants. In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), Miyazaki, Japan. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).