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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T How “Loco” Is the LOCO Corpus? Annotating the Language of Conspiracy Theories
%A Mompelat, Ludovic
%A Tian, Zuoyu
%A Kessler, Amanda
%A Luettgen, Matthew
%A Rajanala, Aaryana
%A Kübler, Sandra
%A Seelig, Michelle
%Y Pradhan, Sameer
%Y Kuebler, Sandra
%S Proceedings of the 16th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVI) within LREC2022
%D 2022
%8 June
%I European Language Resources Association
%C Marseille, France
%F mompelat-etal-2022-loco
%X Conspiracy theories have found a new channel on the internet and spread by bringing together like-minded people, thus functioning as an echo chamber. The new 88-million word corpus Language of Conspiracy (LOCO) was created with the intention to provide a text collection to study how the language of conspiracy differs from mainstream language. We use this corpus to develop a robust annotation scheme that will allow us to distinguish between documents containing conspiracy language and documents that do not contain any conspiracy content or that propagate conspiracy theories via misinformation (which we explicitly disregard in our work). We find that focusing on indicators of a belief in a conspiracy combined with textual cues of conspiracy language allows us to reach a substantial agreement (based on Fleiss’ kappa and Krippendorff’s alpha). We also find that the automatic retrieval methods used to collect the corpus work well in finding mainstream documents, but include some documents in the conspiracy category that would not belong there based on our definition.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2022.law-1.14
%P 111-119

Markdown (Informal)

[How “Loco” Is the LOCO Corpus? Annotating the Language of Conspiracy Theories](https://aclanthology.org/2022.law-1.14) (Mompelat et al., LAW 2022)

• How “Loco” Is the LOCO Corpus? Annotating the Language of Conspiracy Theories (Mompelat et al., LAW 2022)

ACL

• Ludovic Mompelat, Zuoyu Tian, Amanda Kessler, Matthew Luettgen, Aaryana Rajanala, Sandra Kübler, and Michelle Seelig. 2022. How “Loco” Is the LOCO Corpus? Annotating the Language of Conspiracy Theories. In Proceedings of the 16th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVI) within LREC2022, pages 111–119, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.