Multi-Dimensional Insights: Annotated Dataset of Stance, Sentiment, and Emotion in Facebook Comments on Tunisia's July 25 Measures

Sanaa Laabar, Wajdi Zaghouani

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Abstract

On July 25, 2021, Tunisian President Kais Saied announced the suspension of parliament and dismissal of Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi, a move that sparked intense public debate. This study investigates Tunisian public opinion regarding these events by analyzing a corpus of 7,535 Facebook comments collected from the official Tunisian presidency page, specifically the post announcing the July 25 measures. A team of three annotators labeled a subset of 5,000 comments, categorizing each comment's political stance (supportive, opposing, or neutral), sentiment (positive, negative, or neutral), emotions, presence of hate speech, aggressive tone, and racism. The inter-annotator agreement, measured by Cohen's kappa, was 0.61, indicating substantial consensus. The analysis reveals that a majority of commenters supported President Saied's actions, outnumbering those who opposed or took a neutral stance. Moreover, the overall sentiment expressed in the comments was predominantly positive. This study provides valuable insights into the complex landscape of public opinion in Tunisia during a crucial moment in the country's ongoing political transformation, highlighting the role of social media as a platform for political discourse and engagement.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Political Sciences, PoliticalNLP 2024 at LREC-COLING 2024- Proceedings
EditorsHaithem Afli, Houda Bouamor, Cristina Blasi Casagran, Sahar Ghannay
PublisherEuropean Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Pages22-32
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9782493814265
Publication statusPublished - 2024
Event2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Political Sciences, PoliticalNLP 2024 - Torino, Italy
Duration: 21 May 2024 → …

Publication series

Name2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Political Sciences, PoliticalNLP 2024 at LREC-COLING 2024- Proceedings

Conference

Conference2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Political Sciences, PoliticalNLP 2024
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityTorino
Period21/05/24 → …

Keywords

  • Data Annotation
  • Digital Humanities
  • Hate Speech
  • Sentiment Analysis

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