Studying Reactions to Stereotypes in Teenagers: an Annotated Italian Dataset

Elisa Chierchiello, Tom Bourgeade, Giacomo Ricci, Cristina Bosco, Francesca D’Errico

Abstract
The paper introduces a novel corpus collected in a set of experiments in Italian schools, annotated for the presence of stereotypes, and related categories. It consists of comments written by teenage students in reaction to fabricated fake news, designed to elicit prejudiced responses, by featuring racial stereotypes. We make use of an annotation scheme which takes into account the implicit or explicit nature of different instances of stereotypes, alongside their forms of discredit. We also annotate the stance of the commenter towards the news article, using a schema inspired by rumor and fake news stance detection tasks. Through this rarely studied setting, we provide a preliminary exploration of the production of stereotypes in a more controlled context. Alongside this novel dataset, we provide both quantitative and qualitative analyses of these reactions, to validate the categories used in their annotation. Through this work, we hope to increase the diversity of available data in the study of the propagation and the dynamics of negative stereotypes.
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2024.trac-1.13
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Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Threat, Aggression & Cyberbullying @ LREC-COLING-2024
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May
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2024
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Torino, Italia
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Ritesh Kumar, Atul Kr. Ojha, Shervin Malmasi, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Bornini Lahiri, Siddharth Singh, Shyam Ratan
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TRAC | WS
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ELRA and ICCL
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115–125
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Elisa Chierchiello, Tom Bourgeade, Giacomo Ricci, Cristina Bosco, and Francesca D’Errico. 2024. Studying Reactions to Stereotypes in Teenagers: an Annotated Italian Dataset. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Threat, Aggression & Cyberbullying @ LREC-COLING-2024, pages 115–125, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
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Studying Reactions to Stereotypes in Teenagers: an Annotated Italian Dataset (Chierchiello et al., TRAC-WS 2024)
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