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* Stance and Gender Detection in Tweets on Catalan Independence @ IBEREVAL 2017 Training Data
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* http://stel.ub.edu/Stance-IberEval2017/
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* Task co-organizers
* Mariona Taulé (mtaule[at]ub.edu), Universitat de Barcelona, UB, Spain [primary contact]
* M. Antònia Martí (amarti[at]ub.edu), Universitat de Barcelona, UB, Spain [primary contact]
* Francisco Rangel (francisco.rangel[at]autoritas.es), Autoritas, Spain
* Paolo Rosso (prosso[at]dsic.upv.es), Universitat Politècnica de València, UPV, Spain
* Cristina Bosco (bosco[at]di.unito.it), Viviana Patti (patti[at]di.unito.it), University of Turin, UniTO, Italy
* Viviana Patti (patti[at]di.unito.it), University of Turin, UniTO, Italy 
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A single development set will be provided (training data). 
The distribution consists of 4,319 tweets in Spanish and 4,319 tweets in Catalan, with annotations concerning the two subtasks: 
stance detection and identification of gender.

The data format is as follows.

For the tweets files:

id:::contents

For the truth files:

id:::stance:::gender

The language is encoded in the file name.

For what concerns test data, the distribution consists of 1,081 tweets in Spanish and 1,081 tweets in Catalan. 
You won't need to detect the language, tweets are provided in two independent files per language, as in the training set.
		
It will be possible to download the data at the following address: 

http://stel.ub.edu/Stance-IberEval2017/data.html

At this stage the access is restricted to participants registered for the task. Participants who need the password can ask for it by email to patti@di.unito.it