Degrees of Subjectivity and Their Repercussions in Conversation. The View from Online Interactions

Gonzalo Freijedo Aduna, Anastasia Giannakidou, Alda Mari


Abstract
We present the Annotated Reddit Conversation Corpus (ARCC), an English-language dataset of online discussions annotated for Speech Acts and Functional Dependence Relations, designed to investigate how varying degrees of subjectivity influence conversational dynamics and interaction patterns. At the speech act level, we distinguish factual from opinion statements and further classify opinions along a five-degree scale of subjectivity. Functional Dependence Relations capture how segments relate to preceding ones. Analyses show that opinion-discussion contexts feature frequent inter-subjective opinions eliciting explicit agreement and disagreement, while information-exchange contexts exhibit less subjective opinions with responses like answers or requests for clarification. We further demonstrate that a transformer model can predict the subjectivity scale with promising performance. The corpus and annotation guidelines are made available to support future research on opinion expression and automated dialogue analysis.
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2026.slide-1.1
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data and Evaluation (SLiDE)
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May
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2026
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Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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Erhard Hinrichs, Joakim Nivre, Petya Osenova, James Pustejovsky, Claus Zinn
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SLiDE | WS
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ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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1–13
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https://lrec.elra.info/lrec2026-ws-slide-01
DOI:
10.63317/53p2a7tyghmi
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Gonzalo Freijedo Aduna, Anastasia Giannakidou, and Alda Mari. 2026. Degrees of Subjectivity and Their Repercussions in Conversation. The View from Online Interactions. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data and Evaluation (SLiDE), pages 1–13, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Degrees of Subjectivity and Their Repercussions in Conversation. The View from Online Interactions (Freijedo Aduna et al., SLiDE 2026)
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