| --- |
| configs: |
| - config_name: all |
| data_files: |
| - split: train |
| path: '*/train*.json' |
| - split: validation |
| path: '*/validation.json' |
| - split: test |
| path: '*/test.json' |
| default: true |
| - config_name: budget2018 |
| data_dir: budget2018 |
| - config_name: microblogs |
| data_dir: microblogs |
| - config_name: social_media |
| data_dir: social_media |
| license: cc-by-nc-4.0 |
| task_categories: |
| - text-classification |
| language: |
| - mt |
| pretty_name: SentiMalti |
| size_categories: |
| - 1K<n<10K |
| --- |
| |
| # SentiMalti |
|
|
| A Maltese sentiment analysis dataset from a variety of sources. |
| This dataset is an extension of the [Budget 2018](https://aclanthology.org/D19-5547/) and [Microblogs](https://www.thinkmind.org/library/SEMAPRO/SEMAPRO_2016/semapro_2016_1_40_30007.html) datasets. |
| This data also includes a newly created data portion scraped from various social media sources and annotated using [crowd-sourcing](https://nlpgroup.research.um.edu.mt/sentiment/). |
| The sentiment labels are: `positive`, `negative`, `neutral`. |
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| The previous datasets are included as separate configs under `budget2018` & `microblogs`. |
| The newly created data is available under the `social_media` config. |
| The default config (`all`) contains the data from all configs. |
| We ensure that any data from [Evaluating morphological typology in zero-shot cross-lingual transfer](https://github.com/jerbarnes/typology_of_crosslingual/tree/master/data/sentiment/mt) is kept in the same train/validation/test splits, and we additionally include instances with a `neutral` label. |
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| ## License |
|
|
| This work is licensed under a |
| [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License][cc-by-nc-sa]. |
| Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at [https://mlrs.research.um.edu.mt/](https://mlrs.research.um.edu.mt/). |
|
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| [![CC BY-NC-SA 4.0][cc-by-nc-sa-image]][cc-by-nc-sa] |
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| [cc-by-nc-sa]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| [cc-by-nc-sa-image]: https://licensebuttons.net/l/by-nc-sa/4.0/88x31.png |
|
|
| ## Citation |
|
|
| This work was first presented in [SentiMalti: A Maltese Sentiment Analysis Dataset and Models](#). |
| Cite it as follows: |
|
|
| ```bibtex |
| @inproceedings{SentiMalti, |
| title = "{S}enti{M}alti: A {M}altese Sentiment Analysis Dataset and Models", |
| author = "Caruana, Ian and |
| Vella, Matthew and |
| Zammit, Fabio and |
| Micallef, Kurt and |
| Borg, Claudia", |
| booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fifteenth Biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)}, |
| month = may, |
| year = "2026", |
| address = "Palma, Mallorca, Spain", |
| publisher = "European Language Resources Association", |
| } |
| ``` |
|
|
| The `budget2018` & `microblogs` subsets are based from previous works, which you can cite as follows: |
|
|
| ```bibtex |
| @inproceedings{SentiMalti_budget2018, |
| title = "A Social Opinion Gold Standard for the {M}alta Government Budget 2018", |
| author = "Cortis, Keith and |
| Davis, Brian", |
| editor = "Xu, Wei and |
| Ritter, Alan and |
| Baldwin, Tim and |
| Rahimi, Afshin", |
| booktitle = "Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2019)", |
| month = nov, |
| year = "2019", |
| address = "Hong Kong, China", |
| publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", |
| url = "https://aclanthology.org/D19-5547/", |
| doi = "10.18653/v1/D19-5547", |
| pages = "364--369", |
| } |
| ``` |
|
|
| ```bibtex |
| @inproceedings{SentiMalti_microblogs, |
| author = {Dingli, Alexei and |
| Sant, Nicole}, |
| title = {Sentiment Analysis on {M}altese using Machine Learning}, |
| booktitle = {The Tenth International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing ({SEMAPRO} 2016)}, |
| pages = {21--25}, |
| year = {2016}, |
| url = {https://www.thinkmind.org/library/SEMAPRO/SEMAPRO_2016/semapro_2016_1_40_30007.html}, |
| } |
| ``` |
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