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title = "{L}egitim{N}arrate: A Dataset for Analyzing Legitimation Mechanisms in Crowdfunding Narratives",
author = "Lagrid, Asmaa and
Fournier, Sebastien and
ALDEBERT, Benedicte and
Ghods, Ali and
Bertrand, Daisy and
Leboeuf, Gael",
editor = "Piperidis, Stelios and
Bel, N{\'u}ria and
van den Heuvel, Henk and
Ide, Nancy and
Krek, Simon and
Toral, Antonio",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
month = may,
year = "2026",
address = "Palma de Mallorca, Spain",
publisher = "ELRA Language Resource Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.106/",
doi = "10.63317/3adcqvpnznxt",
pages = "1361--1371",
abstract = "New ventures face challenges due to their liability of newness and need to gain legitimacy within the context of crowdfunding to secure vital resources for growth and survival. Previous studies have primarily assessed crowdfunding success through structured metadata or social media analytics, often neglecting detailed examinations of campaign narratives. To fill this gap, we introduce LegitimNarrate, an expert-annotated dataset specifically designed to analyze legitimation mechanisms in crowdfunding narratives. This dataset comprises 97 Kickstarter campaign descriptions segmented into 4,954 sentences, each meticulously annotated by management experts according to theoretical legitimacy frameworks. We benchmark LegitimNarrate with various contextual sentence-classification methods. This resource facilitates comprehensive research on discursive legitimacy and the role of narrative in crowdfunding contexts."
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%A Lagrid, Asmaa
%A Fournier, Sebastien
%A ALDEBERT, Benedicte
%A Ghods, Ali
%A Bertrand, Daisy
%A Leboeuf, Gael
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%Y Bel, Núria
%Y van den Heuvel, Henk
%Y Ide, Nancy
%Y Krek, Simon
%Y Toral, Antonio
%S Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
%D 2026
%8 May
%I ELRA Language Resource Association
%C Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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Markdown (Informal)
[LegitimNarrate: A Dataset for Analyzing Legitimation Mechanisms in Crowdfunding Narratives](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.106/) (Lagrid et al., LREC 2026)
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