Research Outputs

News articles of 2013-2017 reporting on digital communication platforms and online privacy. Restricted access - contact author for more information or specific conditions

News articles of 2010 reporting on energy (policy). Restricted access - contact author for more information or specific conditions

News articles of 2013-2015 reporting on Belgian internment policy. Restricted access - contact author for more information or specific conditions

News articles on Belgian socio-economic policy reform, and austerity policies and protests in particular, in 2019, 1977, 1993, 2011, and 2014. Restricted access - contact author for more information or specific conditions

News articles reporting on the climate change summits of 2000, 2001, 2006 and 2012. Restricted access - contact author for more information or specific conditions

News articles reporting on a direct action against a field trial of genetically modified potatoes in 2011. Restricted access - contact author for more information or specific conditions

Newspaper articles reporting on new applications for genetically modified (GM) food between January and June 1998 and on the EU moratorium of June 1999. Restricted access - contact author for more information or specific conditions

Argumentation analysis of a journalistic report about the Cave of Altamira (Spain). It is annotated following Inference Anchoring Theory (IAT) guidelines.

Argumentative analysis of technical reports produced by researchers in cultural heritage. It is annotated following Inference Anchoring Theory (AIT) guidelines.

Fiscal rules in Italy and in the European Union. Interview notes taken by researchers in Italian, also translated into English. These data were collected in the context of the First Run - Fiscal Rules and Strategies under Externalities and Uncertainties project, funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union (Project ID 649261). Restricted access - contact author for more information or specific conditions

The corpus is made up of articles published in the online editions of four Romanian newspapers in the months of August and September 2013. It was collected in 2014 (spring and summer) by using "Rosia Montana" as keyword. The articles (news stories and editorials) cover the massive civic protests that took place in Romania, in 2013, against the implementation of a gold-mining project at Rosia Montana. Restricted access - contact author for more information or specific conditions

Multilingual (German, French, Italian) Swiss web corpus with texts collected from selected web sources; designed to support data-based and data-driven research on societal and political discourses in Switzerland; includes news and specialist publications, governmental opinions, and parliamentary records, web sites of political parties, companies, and universities, statements from industry associations and NGOs; linguistically annotated on multiple layers (part-of-speech, lemma, named entities, toponyms, syntactic dependencies, named entity linking).  

21 interviews in English, 4 in Portuguese. Mean interview time about 110 mins. Conducted in the second half of 2017. Transcribed verbatim. Partly annotated and the parts annotated are used for publications. Restricted access - contact author for more information or specific conditions [Doi: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2020.101244]

Dataset with over 700+ data-points (20+ traits) of a 24 minute TV interview on educational policy in 2013 after students protests (interview by Péter Csermely with György Fábri, vice-rector of ELTE, Budapest). Televised debate, annotation (dataset in excel and in XPSS, srt file for teaching use), has audio/video/shooting angle data, linguistic & non-verbal traits. Restricted access - COST members only (corpus will be made available on the intranet)

The corpus consists of more than 25,000 sentences over eight topics with high quality annotations done by crowdworkers. Each sentence is annotated as either an argument, including the stance towards the topic (pro or con), or no argument. The sentences origin from heterogeneous text types and the eight topics allow for cross-topic experiments.

An important skill in critical thinking and argumentation is the ability to spot and recognize fallacies. Fallacious arguments, omnipresent in argumentative discourse, can be deceptive, manipulative, or simply leading to `wrong moves' in a discussion. This corpus contains English and German fallacious arguments collected through the serious-game Argotario. Each argument is labeled as non-fallacious or containing exactly one type of fallacy (several fallacy types).

Reasoning is a crucial part of natural language argumentation. To comprehend an argument, one must analyze its warrant, which explains why its claim follows from its premises. As arguments are highly contextualized, warrants are usually presupposed and left implicit. Thus, the comprehension does not only require language understanding and logic skills, but also depends on common sense. We provide a freely licensed dataset with warrants for 2k authentic arguments from news comments. The following annotations were carried out: stance of the argument, reason spans, added warrants explaining reasoning from premises to the claim.  

The witness of a gay against gay mariage in France. The witness is a videorecording published on youtube by a French chain (Homovox) supporting freedom and minority rights. The video has been transcripted according to the CLAPI conventions (ICOR-Lyon).  

A French high-school pupil, wins the national competition of argumentation for human rights (yearly held in Caen) with a speech about the rights of the elderly. The corpus is constituted by the first section of the speech, in which she relates a shocking visit to a home for the elderly. The corpus has been transcripted according to CLAPI conventions (ICOR-Lyon). Original French translated into English.  

Six minutes long videorecorded witness of a French middle-school teacher who tells her experience of being with her pupils the day after a terror attack in Paris. many young ones in the school had congratulated for the attack, so that the principal had given order the teachers not to mention the issue anymore in class. Transcript according to CLAPI conventions (ICOR-Lyon). Original French translated into English. Restricted access - contact author for more information or specific conditions

Data collected in structured interviews with parents of primary school children on the issue of radiation from wifi routers (non ionizing radiation). The goal of these interviews was to learn about parents attitudes, perceptions, and use of science literacy in their decision making processes, as they engage with the issue of Wi-Fi in schools both on personal level and on a community level. Restricted access - contact author for more information or specific conditions  

Facebook posts (and comments to these posts) instigated by TV programs about non-ionizing radiation. Total of 865 coded comments. Restricted access - contact author for more information or specific conditions  

70 Online News items from 2014-2017 about non ionizing radiation from Israeli news websites. Includes also talk-backs/user comments to 48 of them. Restricted access - contact author for more information or specific conditions  

Official websites of various political, environmental protectionist and expert actors were analyzed about the topic of the Hungarian nuclear expansion (getting two new nuclear reactors to maintain the ratio of nuclear energy production after the approaching shutting off of the old reactors). Restricted access - contact author for more information or specific conditions

Comparison of political framings in two Parliamentary speeches made by the PM of Hungary and media framings of three online news organizations of different political attitudes following the two speeches about refugees and migrants. Restricted access- contact author for more information or specific conditions

The corpus includes press conferences coming from the European Central Bank, the European Parliament, NATO, and also the White House. All the conferences include the speech given by politicians and also journalists' interventions. Restricted access - contact author for more information or specific conditions

Corpus of newspaper articles relative to international migration in the summer of 2015 from an Italian perspective. The corpus has been collected with the purpose of studying migrants' representations on the media. Restricted access - contact author for more information or specific conditions

This is a corpus composed of cases of conflict resolution through dispute mediation in various interpersonal conflicts. Part of the corpus has been collected by Chiara Jermini-Martinez Soria in the framework of the project RefraMe - The inferential dynamics of reframing within dispute mediators' argumentation, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, Grant 10001C_170004). The corpus is annotated regarding the presence of "reframing" and it has been annotated using UAM Corpus Tool. Restricted access - contact author for more information or specific conditions

Interviews to migrant women with children all living in the greater London area. The interviews were done in 2010 and 2011 with the aim to study transition processes and inner dialogue (inner decision-making) through a lens of argumentation. This corpus has been the basis for different studies on inner argumentation. It also offers a perspective on international migration seen from the viewpoint of individual migrants. The corpus has been collected within the project "Migrants in transition: An argumentative perspective, financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation, Grant: PBTIP1-133595). Restricted access - contact author for more information or specific conditions

The dataset integrates the Portuguese funded project “Female Online Participation: redefining the public sphere” (2010-2011). The team has focused on a variety of online public spheres, ranging from the traditionally political to the more unconventional political. The diverse case studies that integrated this project were subjected to a common analysis grid, with variables designed to define the discursive mode of the messages exchanged in the analysed fora, such as rationality of argumentation, civility or degree of rational legitimacy, among others. In this particular case, we chose to observe the readers’ comments in the news focused on the Brazilian presidential campaign, taking mainly into account the research of Tsaliki and other theoretical/empirical proposals that incorporate Habermas’ ethics of discourse in the analysis of online political forums. Additionally, we aim to introduce new dimensions for both theoretical and empirical researches on this matter, in order to seek for complementary academic approaches that go beyond habermasian ideals of deliberative democracy. The Brazilian presidential campaign gained substantial journalistic coverage in Portugal (71 articles in Público online; and 60 news stories in Expresso online), due to the cultural proximity news value. We have focused only on the articles (six) that received the greatest number of comments in both websites; we have analysed 303 readers’ comments (139 in Público and 164 in Expresso), using Nvivo, a qualitative and quantitative data analysis software. The unit analysis chosen for coding was the paragraph; each one was coded into one or more categories/subcategories. We also observed the word frequency among the readers’ comments analysed. Restricted access - COST members only (corpus will be made available on the restricted area)

This corpus consists of a collection of tweets of Members of the European Parliament and candidates at the European Elections of 2014 and 2019, coming from Belgium, France, Spain and the United Kingdom. The tweets are classified per account. Restricted access - contact author for more information or specific conditions

This databases consists of newspaper articles that were published in Croatian newspapers and that were related to LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) issues between 2002 and 2013 - this is the period between first ever Croatian Pride Parade in 2002 and the referendum for constitutional definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman in 2013. The articles were published in nine Croatian newspapers (24sata, Glas Slavonije, Globus, Jutarnji list, Nacional, Novi list, Slobodna Dalmacija, Večernji list, Vjesnik) during perods of the increased public interest in LGBT-related issues: Pride Parades (Zagreb 2002-2013, Split 2011-2013), International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT; 2005-2013), pertinent parliamentary sessions (Same-sex Unions, Gender Equality and Family Law in 2003, Medically-Assisted Reproduction in 2005, Registered Partnership in 2006, Anti-Discrimination and Gender Equality in 2008, Medically-Assisted Reproduction in 2009, 2011 and 2012, Anti-Discrimination in 2012), and the key events of the 2012/2013 sex education campaign and the 2013 marriage referendum campaign. For regular or announced events (e.g. Pride, demonstrations) the coverage typically includes the week before and after the event. For parliamentary debates, press conferences and similar events, the coverage is examined for reactions during the event and in the week afterwards. Some time-limited events (e.g. IDAHOT) were covered only for that day. Restricted access - contact author for more information or specific conditions

Interviews were conducted with Maltese participants in Malta, concerning their views on the integration of Arabs. The interviews were aimed at eliciting the main claims and argumentation structures of participants concerning integration. Interviews were analysed using argumentation analysis (Sammut et al., 2018). The interviews were conducted in Maltese and subsequently translated into English.

Interviews were conducted with Arabs in Malta, concerning their views on the integration of Arabs in Malta. The interviews were aimed at eliciting the main claims and argumentation structures of participants concerning integration. Interviews were analysed using argumentation analysis, based on Sammut et al. (2018) and further work. The interviews were conducted in Maltese and subsequently translated into English.

EU legislation, EU soft law instruments, EU press releases = data is available on EUR-lex, website of DG COMM of the European Commission. The data are in English but official EU translation are available through the EU websites (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/homepage.html; https://ec.europa.eu/info/about-european-commission/contact/press-services/press-releases-and-notifications_en). When data is transcribed by researcher (in case of interviews), it cannot be made publicly available.

Post-level data of posts made by a series of european parties - from AT, BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FR, GB, HU, IL, IT, MT, PT, RO, RS, SE and TR - to Facebook. Metadata includes text, datestamp and N of engagement (such as likes, shares and so on) that each post had yielded at the time of archiving. See https://socialscience.one/crowdtangle-codebook for information on metadata, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1461444819887700 for an example of analysis that is possible. Please note that similar data can be collected from Instagram and that data collection is quick and therefore can be repeated if need be. Restricted access - COST members only (corpus will be made available on the restricted area)

The interviews were conducted in the period of my post-doctoral research (2012-2015), which focused, among other aspects, on the Portuguese journalists’ views and attitudes on audience participation, particularly online comments. The main purpose of these interviews was to explore the ways by which diverse Portuguese print media outlets are handling audience participation in the online environment, drawing on the perspectives of journalists and editors-in-chief in what concerns their practices, self-perceptions, expectations and policies on user contributions management strategies, workflows and relationship with the audience and editorial/corporate goals and interests. All interviews took place in Lisbon, lasted between 1 and 2 hours and were recorded electronically. I have the audio files (but not the transcripts). Restricted access - contact author for more information or specific conditions  

The corpus describes the main arguments found in French articles based on a research on Europresse. We selected articles based on keywords (carbon+capture+storage and/or geological+storage). We coded each article depending on the actors mentionned in the text (one line per actor) and the arguments they broadcasted. Arguments which were not attached to a specific actor were attached automatically to the journalist. The corpus shows aggregated arguments but we started from a variety of arguments and then synthetized them into broader categories. Restricted access - contact author for more information or specific conditions

Interviews by researchers to migrant women with children; participants come from different countries and all live in the greater London area (UK, 2010-2012). Interviews are focused on inner dialogue and argumentation in processes of personal decision-making.