@inproceedings{barz-etal-2025-understanding,
    title = "Understanding Disagreement: An Annotation Study of Sentiment and Emotional Language in Environmental Communication",
    author = "Barz, Christina  and
      Siegel, Melanie  and
      Hanss, Daniel  and
      Wiegand, Michael",
    editor = "Peng, Siyao  and
      Rehbein, Ines",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX-2025)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Vienna, Austria",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/2025.law-1.1/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.law-1.1",
    pages = "1--20",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-262-6",
    abstract = "Emotional language is central to how environmental issues are communicated and received by the public. To better understand how such language is interpreted, we conducted an annotation study on sentiment and emotional language in texts from the environmental activist group Extinction Rebellion. The annotation process revealed substantial disagreement among annotators, highlighting the complexity and subjectivity involved in interpreting emotional language. In this paper, we analyze the sources of these disagreements, offering insights into how individual perspectives shape annotation outcomes. Our work contributes to ongoing discussions on perspectivism in NLP and emphasizes the importance of human-centered approaches and citizen science in analyzing environmental communication."
}