Manosphrames: exploring an Italian incel community through the lens of NLP and Frame Semantics

Sara Gemelli, Gosse Minnema


Abstract
We introduce a large corpus of comments extracted from an Italian online incel (‘involuntary incelibate’) forum, a community of men who build a collective identity and anti-feminist ideology centered around their inability to find a sexual or romantic partner and who frequently use explicitly misogynistic language. Our corpus consists of 2.4K comments that have been manually collected, analyzed and annotated with topic labels, and a further 32K threads (300K comments) that have been automatically scraped and automatically annotated with FrameNet annotations. We show how large-scale frame semantic analysis can shed a light on what is discussed in the community, and introduce incel topic classification as a new NLP task and benchmark.
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2024.rfp-1.4
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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Reference, Framing, and Perspective @ LREC-COLING 2024
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May
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2024
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Torino, Italia
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Pia Sommerauer, Tommaso Caselli, Malvina Nissim, Levi Remijnse, Piek Vossen
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Sara Gemelli and Gosse Minnema. 2024. Manosphrames: exploring an Italian incel community through the lens of NLP and Frame Semantics. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Reference, Framing, and Perspective @ LREC-COLING 2024, pages 28–39, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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