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This repository contains the annotations on the Vaccination Corpus, a corpus of texts related to the online vaccination debate that has been annotated with:

Three layers of annotations about perspectives: attribution, claims and opinions. 

Events related to the vaccination debate.

Senses of modal verbs (50 files)

Directories:

/docs: contains the annotation guidelines

/data: contains the annotations

  /annotation-xml-ehost: annotations in xml format (events claims, attributions, opinions, modal senses)
  
  /annotations-conll-opinions: annotations in conll format of opinions
  
  /annotations-conll-claims-events-attribution: annotations in conll format of claims, events and attributions

  /annotations-pickle: annotations as pickle objects of claims, events and attributions

/code: contains some code to load the annotations in Python

The corpus is described in the following paper:

Morante, R., C. van Son, I. Maks and P. Vossen (2020), Annotating Perspectives on Vaccination, Proceedings of LREC2020, Marseille.

The annotations of modal senses are described in the following paper:

Liza King and Roser Morante (2020) Must Children be Vaccinated or not? Annotating Modal Verbs in the Vaccination Debate. Proceedings of LREC 2020, Marseille, France.

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