README.md

Mawqif: A Multi-label Arabic Dataset for Target-specific Stance Detection

• Mawqif is the first Arabic dataset that can be used for target-specific stance detection.

• This is a multi-label dataset where each data point is annotated for stance, sentiment, and sarcasm.

• We benchmark Mawqif dataset on the stance detection task and evaluate the performance of four BERT-based models. Our best model achieves a macro-F1 of 78.89%.

Mawqif Statistics

• This dataset consists of 4,121 tweets in multi-dialectal Arabic. Each tweet is annotated with a stance toward one of three targets: “COVID-19 vaccine,” “digital transformation,” and “women empowerment.” In addition, it is annotated with sentiment and sarcasm polarities.

• The following figure illustrates the labels’ distribution across all targets, and the distribution per target.

Interactive Visualization

To browse an interactive visualization of the Mawqif dataset, please click here

• You can click on visualization components to filter the data by target and by class. For example, you can click on “women empowerment" and "against" to get the information of tweets that express against women empowerment.

Citation

If you feel our paper and resources are useful, please consider citing our work!

Nora Saleh Alturayeif, Hamzah Abdullah Luqman, and Moataz Aly Kamaleldin Ahmed. 2022. Mawqif: A Multi-label Arabic Dataset for Target-specific Stance Detection. In Proceedings of the The Seventh Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP), pages 174–184, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid). Association for Computational Linguistics.