ylelauta/pol-4chan-augmented

/pol/ 4chan Augmented Dataset

134.5M posts from 3.4M threads on 4chan's /pol/ board (June 2016 - November 2019), augmented with Perspective API toxicity scores and named entity recognition.

Dataset Description

This dataset contains posts from 4chan's Politically Incorrect (/pol/) board, collected between June 2016 and November 2019. Each post has been augmented with:

• Perspective API toxicity scores (7 dimensions): toxicity, severe_toxicity, inflammatory, profanity, insult, obscene, spam
• Named Entity Recognition: extracted entities stored as JSON arrays

Source

Original data from Papasavva et al. (2020) — "Raiders of the Lost Kek: 3.5 Years of Augmented 4chan Posts from the Politically Incorrect Board".

Format

270 parquet shards with zstd compression (~70MB each). The dataset is directly loadable with HuggingFace datasets:

from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("ylelauta/pol-4chan-augmented")

Schema

Field	Type	Description
thread_no	int64	Thread number (from OP)
no	int64	Post number
resto	int64	0 = OP, >0 = reply-to thread number
time	int64	Unix timestamp
com	string	Comment HTML
country / country_name	string	Poster's country flag
sub	string	Subject (OP only)
name / trip	string	Poster identity
filename / ext / fsize / md5 / w / h / tim	mixed	Image metadata
replies / images	int32	Thread stats (OP only)
toxicity	float32	Perspective API toxicity score (0-1)
severe_toxicity	float32	Severe toxicity score
inflammatory	float32	Inflammatory score
profanity	float32	Profanity score
insult	float32	Insult score
obscene	float32	Obscene score
spam	float32	Spam score
entities	string	JSON array of named entities

Statistics

• 134,529,233 posts
• 3,397,911 threads
• 270 parquet shards
• Date range: June 2016 - November 2019

Citation

@inproceedings{papasavva2020raiders,
  title={Raiders of the Lost Kek: 3.5 Years of Augmented 4chan Posts from the Politically Incorrect Board},
  author={Papasavva, Antonis and Zannettou, Savvas and De Cristofaro, Emiliano and Stringhini, Gianluca and Blackburn, Jeremy},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
  year={2020}
}

License

CC-BY-4.0 (following the original dataset license)