28.825, FYI: Over 95 Million Wikipedia Discussion Comments

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-825. Mon Feb 13 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.825, FYI: Over 95 Million Wikipedia Discussion Comments

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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 15:49:52
From: Melody Kramer [mkramer at wikimedia.org]
Subject: Over 95 Million Wikipedia Discussion Comments

 Yesterday, Wikipedia released a corpus of all 95 million user and article talk
comments made on Wikipedia between 2001-2015 - It is the largest annotated
dataset of online personal attacks and a corpus of over 95 million Wikipedia
discussion comments.

More information at: 

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/02/07/scaling-understanding-of-harassment/

Both data sets are available on FigShare, a research repository where users
can share data, to support further research:

https://figshare.com/projects/Wikipedia_Talk/16731

If you’re interested in collaborating with the Wikimedia Foundation on
research in this area, you can find documentation on formal collaborations
here:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Formal_collaborations

You can also follow @WikiResearch on Twitter for news and updates on research,
datasets and APIs from Wikimedia projects or contact the Wikimedia Research
team at research-wmf at wikimedia.org
 
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics



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