@inproceedings{chiril-etal-2025-seeds,
    title = "Seeds of Discourse: A Multilingual Corpus of Direct Quotations from {A}frican Media on Agricultural Biotechnologies",
    author = "Chiril, Patricia  and
      Spreadbury, Trevor  and
      Rock, Joeva Sean  and
      Dowd-Uribe, Brian  and
      Uminsky, David",
    editor = "Chiruzzo, Luis  and
      Ritter, Alan  and
      Wang, Lu",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2025",
    month = apr,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Albuquerque, New Mexico",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2025.findings-naacl.473/",
    pages = "8494--8500",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-195-7",
    abstract = "Direct quotations play a crucial role in journalism by substantiating claims and enhancing persuasive communication. This makes news articles a rich resource for opinion mining, providing valuable insights into the topics they cover. This paper presents the first multilingual corpora (English and French) featuring both manually annotated (1,657) and automatically extracted (102,483) direct quotations related to agricultural biotechnologies from a curated list of Africa-based news sources. In addition, we provide 665 instances annotated for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis, enabling a fine-grained examination of sentiment toward key aspects of agricultural biotechnologies. These corpora are freely available to the research community for future work on media discourse surrounding agricultural biotechnologies."
}