LOCO: The 88-million-word language of conspiracy corpus.
LOCO: The 88-million-word language of conspiracy corpus.
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Loco：阴谋语料库的8800万字语言。
DOI：
10.3758/s13428-021-01698-z
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发表时间：
2022-08
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Bangerter A
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作者：
Miani A;Hills T;Bangerter A
网络阴谋论的传播是对社会的严重威胁。为了理解阴谋的内容，在这里我们提出了阴谋语言（LOCO）语料库。LOCO是一个8800万令牌语料库，由从150个网站收集的主题匹配的阴谋（N = 23，937）和主流（N = 72，806）文档组成。模仿互联网用户的行为，使用谷歌通过将一组种子短语与一组网站交叉来识别文档。LOCO是分层结构的，这意味着每个文档都在网站（N = 150）和主题（N = 600，三种不同的分辨率）中交叉嵌套。一组丰富的语言特征（N = 287）和元数据包括上传日期，社交媒体参与度的测量，网站受欢迎程度的测量，规模和流量，以及政治偏见和事实报告注释。我们从不同的角度探讨了LOCO的特征，这些特征表明，文档通过时间跟踪重要的社会事件（例如，戴安娜王妃的死，桑迪胡克学校枪击案，冠状病毒爆发），而词汇特征的模式（例如，欺骗，权力，支配地位）与那些从致力于阴谋论的在线社交媒体社区中提取的内容重叠。通过计算子语料库内余弦相似度，我们得出了一个最具代表性的阴谋文件子集（N = 4，227），与其他阴谋文件相比，这些文件显示了原型和夸张的阴谋语言，并且更频繁地在Facebook上分享。我们还表明，阴谋网站用户通过更直接的手段比主流用户导航到网站，这表明确认偏见。LOCO和相关数据集可在https://osf.io/snpcg/上免费获得。在线版本包含补充材料，可通过10.3758/s13428-021-01698-z获得。
The spread of online conspiracy theories represents a serious threat to society. To understand the content of conspiracies, here we present the language of conspiracy (LOCO) corpus. LOCO is an 88-million-token corpus composed of topic-matched conspiracy (N = 23,937) and mainstream (N = 72,806) documents harvested from 150 websites. Mimicking internet user behavior, documents were identified using Google by crossing a set of seed phrases with a set of websites. LOCO is hierarchically structured, meaning that each document is cross-nested within websites (N = 150) and topics (N = 600, on three different resolutions). A rich set of linguistic features (N = 287) and metadata includes upload date, measures of social media engagement, measures of website popularity, size, and traffic, as well as political bias and factual reporting annotations. We explored LOCO’s features from different perspectives showing that documents track important societal events through time (e.g., Princess Diana’s death, Sandy Hook school shooting, coronavirus outbreaks), while patterns of lexical features (e.g., deception, power, dominance) overlap with those extracted from online social media communities dedicated to conspiracy theories. By computing within-subcorpus cosine similarity, we derived a subset of the most representative conspiracy documents (N = 4,227), which, compared to other conspiracy documents, display prototypical and exaggerated conspiratorial language and are more frequently shared on Facebook. We also show that conspiracy website users navigate to websites via more direct means than mainstream users, suggesting confirmation bias. LOCO and related datasets are freely available at https://osf.io/snpcg/. The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.3758/s13428-021-01698-z.
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