Irish Economic Sentiment Dataset

We provide here a text sentiment analysis collection, produced from three Irish online news sources: RTE, The Irish Times, and The Irish Independent.

Summary

This collection was produced using the UCD Sentiment Analyzer system (no longer online), during a three month period (July to October 2009). A subset of all articles collected was annotated by a group of 33 volunteer users, who were encouraged to label the articles as positive, negative, or irrelevant.

Structure

The collection consists of two datasets (user annotations and term frequencies):

Warm-up: The first month constituted a "warm-up" period, which allowed us to train the relevance classifier. This provided an initial dataset containing 3858 articles, with 2693 user annotations covering 354 individual articles.

Main: For the latter two months of the experiment, we collected a dataset for evaluating the machine learning questions arising from the sentiment analysis task. This second "main" dataset comprises 12469 documents, with 6910 user annotations resulting in 1306 labeled articles.

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This dataset is made available for non-commercial and research purposes only. The text of the news articles is provided in pre-processed sparse format. All rights, including copyright, in the content of the original abstracts are owned by the original authors. 

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