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Controversial News Topic Datasets
Corpus of controversial news articles extracted from Twitter. Contains news from three different topics: Beef Ban – controversy over the slaughter and sale of beef on religious grounds (1543 articles) is localised to a particular region, mainly Indian subcontinent, while Gun Control – restrictions on carrying, using, or purchasing firearms (6494 articles) and Capital Punishment – use of the death penalty (7905 articles) are topical in various regions around the world.
Source: Comparative Document Summarisation via Classification
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- Controversial News Topic Datasets
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