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+# MOLD - {M}arathi {O}ffensive {L}anguage {D}ataset
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+The {M}arathi {O}ffensive {L}anguage {D}ataset (MOLD) contains a collection of 2500 annotated Marathi tweets.
+
+The files included are: 
+```
+MOLD
+│   README.md  
+└───data
+    │   MOLD_train.csv
+    │   MOLD_test.csv
+```
+- `MOLD_train.csv`: contains 1,875 annotated tweets for the training set.  
+- `MOLD_test.csv`: contains 625 annotated tweets for the test set. 
+
+
+The dataset was annotated using crowdsourcing. The gold labels were assigned taking the agreement of six annotators into consideration. No correction has been carried out on the crowdsourcing annotations. 
+Each instance in MOLD has been annotated as offensive or not_offensive
+
+
+
+
+## Citation
+If you used MOLD, please refer to this paper:
+
+```bash
+@InProceedings{mold,
+author = {Gaikwad, Saurabh and Ranasinghe, Tharindu and Zampieri, Marcos and Homan, Christopher M.},
+title = {Cross-lingual Offensive Language Identification for Low Resource Languages: The Case of Marathi},
+booktitle = {Proceedings of RANLP},
+year = {2021}
+}
+```
+