Annotating candy speech in German YouTube comments

Yulia Clausen, Tatjana Scheffler


Abstract
We describe the phenomenon of candy speech – positive emotional speech in online communication – and introduce a classification of its various types based on the theoretical framework of social interaction by Goffman (1967). We provide a dataset of 46,286 German YouTube comments manually annotated with candy speech
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2025.law-1.21
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Proceedings of the 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX-2025)
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July
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2025
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Vienna, Austria
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Siyao Peng, Ines Rehbein
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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264–269
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10.18653/v1/2025.law-1.21
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Yulia Clausen and Tatjana Scheffler. 2025. Annotating candy speech in German YouTube comments. In Proceedings of the 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XIX-2025), pages 264–269, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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