Shiladitya Bhattacharya


2020

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Developing a Multilingual Annotated Corpus of Misogyny and Aggression
Shiladitya Bhattacharya | Siddharth Singh | Ritesh Kumar | Akanksha Bansal | Akash Bhagat | Yogesh Dawer | Bornini Lahiri | Atul Kr. Ojha
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Trolling, Aggression and Cyberbullying

In this paper, we discuss the development of a multilingual annotated corpus of misogyny and aggression in Indian English, Hindi, and Indian Bangla as part of a project on studying and automatically identifying misogyny and communalism on social media (the ComMA Project). The dataset is collected from comments on YouTube videos and currently contains a total of over 20,000 comments. The comments are annotated at two levels - aggression (overtly aggressive, covertly aggressive, and non-aggressive) and misogyny (gendered and non-gendered). We describe the process of data collection, the tagset used for annotation, and issues and challenges faced during the process of annotation. Finally, we discuss the results of the baseline experiments conducted to develop a classifier for misogyny in the three languages.