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This dataset comes from the paper: LoveHate: Stance Detection and Generation for Multiple Topics in User-generated Comments in Russian and English
by Natalia Evgrafova, Veronique Hoste, and Els Lefever.

The data can be used for research purposes only. When requesting access, please use your institutional email address. We will contact you back as soon as possible. If you use the data, cite the paper:

@inproceedings{evgrafova2026lovehate,
  title     = {LoveHate: Stance Detection and Generation for Multiple Topics in User-generated Comments in Russian and English},
  author    = {Evgrafova, Natalia and Hoste, Veronique and Lefever, Els},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026)},
  year      = {2026},
  address   = {Palma, Spain},
  publisher = {European Language Resources Association},
}

Dataset Structure

Data Splits

  • train: 12,290 examples
  • validation: 3,310 examples
  • test: 3,309 examples

Features

  1. comment_ru (str): Original comment text in Russian
  2. stance (str): Stance label - 'pro' or 'con'
  3. topic_ru (str): Topic in Russian
  4. topic_en (str): Topic in English
  5. username (str): Anonymized user identifier (e.g., u1, u2)
  6. date (str): Comment posting date
  7. row_order (int): Position within topic discussion
  8. love_messages (int): Count of 'pro' comments per topic
  9. love_people (int): Count of unique 'pro' users per topic
  10. hate_messages (int): Count of 'con' comments per topic
  11. hate_people (int): Count of unique 'con' users per topic
  12. score (float): Sentiment ratio (love_messages / hate_messages)

Dataset Statistics

Comment Length

  • Mean: 484.4 characters
  • Median: 432 characters
  • Range: 20 - 1968 characters

Stance Distribution (Test Set)

  • pro: 1,813 (54.8%)
  • con: 1,496 (45.2%)

Top Topics (Test Set)

Americans (400), Russians (396), God (365), Atheism (298), Communists (268), Stalin (263), USSR (254), Feminists (188), USA (181), Ukrainian language (165)

User Coverage

  • Unique users: 2,214
  • Comments with username: 97.9%

License

MIT

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