Annotating candy speech in German YouTube comments
We describe the phenomenon of candy speech -positive emotional speech in online communication -and introduce a categorization of its various types based on the theoretical framework of social interaction by Goffman (1967).We provide a dataset of 46,286 German YouTube comments manually annotated with candy speech types; 14,580 comments in this data contain a total of 21,785 candy speech expressions.We discuss issues in the annotation and evaluation of such higher-level semantic properties of text.
Authors
- Tatjana Scheffler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7498-6202)
- Yulia Clausen
Institutions
- Ruhr University Bochum (DE)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.law-1.21
- Primary Topic
- Digital Communication and Language
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft