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Towards a Corpus of Violence Acts in Arabic Social Media
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016)
Abstract
In this paper we present a new corpus of Arabic tweets that mention some form of violent event, developed to support the automatic identification of Human Rights Abuse. The dataset was manually labelled for seven classes of violence using crowdsourcing.