TRACES Bulgarian Telegram Dataset Annotated with Linguistic Markers of Lies

<p><strong>This dataset has been created within Project TRACES (more information: https://traces.gate-ai.eu/). The dataset contains 8791 anonymized Telegram social media posts, written in Bulgarian. The dataset is annotated with general information (named entities, part-of-speech tags, sentence length, etc.) and specific markers signaling details and can be used for general purposes or for building lies, manipulation, and disinformation detection applications. </strong></p> <p><strong>Note: this dataset is not fact-checked, the social media messages have been retrieved via keywords. For fact-checked datasets, see our&nbsp;other datasets.</strong></p> <p><strong>The social media posts have been collected via Telegram Desktop in June-July 2022.</strong></p> <p><strong>Explanations of which fields can be used as markers of lies (or of intentional disinformation) are provided in our forthcoming paper:&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>Irina Temnikova, Silvia Gargova, Ruslana Margova, Veneta Kireva, Ivo Dzhumerov, Tsvetelina Stefanova and Hristiana Nikolaeva&nbsp;(2023)&nbsp;New Bulgarian Resources for Detecting Disinformation.&nbsp;10th Language and Technology<br> Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics (LTC&#39;23). Poznań. Poland.</p>