A Slashdot dataset of 10,019 discussion threads, August 2005 to August 2006, from the Online Conversation Threads repository of Aragón et al. (ICWSM 2017): 2,084,864 nodes (articles and comments) and 2,075,611 comment-to-parent reply edges, with comment text, moderation scores, timestamps and thread depth. Suitable for online discourse analysis, conversation dynamics and hierarchical reply-tree structure.
A Reddit dataset of 297,132 utterances from 119,889 speakers across 100 subreddits, collected by Cornell University via ConvoKit. Each record contains utterance text, speaker, conversation thread, subreddit. Conversation corpus from 100 active subreddits with thread structure. Suitable for conversation analysis, community dynamics, discourse analysis.
Twitter conversations around the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris (January 2015), from the PHEME rumour dataset (Zubiaga, Liakata, Procter, Kochkina and colleagues; the complete release for rumour detection and veracity classification, figshare 6392078): 2,079 threads, each a source tweet and its replies, of which 458 were judged rumours by journalists and 1,621 not. Every rumour also carries its veracity as later established: 193 true, 116 false and 149 unverified. 38,268 tweets in all, with full tweet JSON. ECHO builds the reply network (36,189 reply links, each reply pointing to the tweet it answers) and labels each tweet with its thread's rumour status and, for source tweets, the veracity. Useful for rumour detection, rumour verification and modelling how conversations unfold. Annotations CC BY 4.0; Twitter retains the rights to tweet content. The archive PHEME_veracity.tar.bz2 is gzip-compressed despite its name (the name is the authors' own, kept so the checksum matches figshare): extract it with `tar xzf`.
Twitter conversations around the Ferguson unrest after the shooting of Michael Brown (August 2014), from the PHEME rumour dataset (Zubiaga, Liakata, Procter, Kochkina and colleagues; the complete release for rumour detection and veracity classification, figshare 6392078): 1,143 threads, each a source tweet and its replies, of which 284 were judged rumours by journalists and 859 not. Every rumour also carries its veracity as later established: 10 true, 8 false and 266 unverified. 24,175 tweets in all, with full tweet JSON. ECHO builds the reply network (22,260 reply links, each reply pointing to the tweet it answers) and labels each tweet with its thread's rumour status and, for source tweets, the veracity. Useful for rumour detection, rumour verification and modelling how conversations unfold. Annotations CC BY 4.0; Twitter retains the rights to tweet content. The archive PHEME_veracity.tar.bz2 is gzip-compressed despite its name (the name is the authors' own, kept so the checksum matches figshare): extract it with `tar xzf`.
Twitter conversations around the Sydney Lindt café siege (December 2014), from the PHEME rumour dataset (Zubiaga, Liakata, Procter, Kochkina and colleagues; the complete release for rumour detection and veracity classification, figshare 6392078): 1,221 threads, each a source tweet and its replies, of which 522 were judged rumours by journalists and 699 not. Every rumour also carries its veracity as later established: 382 true, 86 false and 54 unverified. 23,996 tweets in all, with full tweet JSON. ECHO builds the reply network (22,775 reply links, each reply pointing to the tweet it answers) and labels each tweet with its thread's rumour status and, for source tweets, the veracity. Useful for rumour detection, rumour verification and modelling how conversations unfold. Annotations CC BY 4.0; Twitter retains the rights to tweet content. The archive PHEME_veracity.tar.bz2 is gzip-compressed despite its name (the name is the authors' own, kept so the checksum matches figshare): extract it with `tar xzf`.