Agoraspeech: a multi-annotated comprehensive dataset of political discourse through the lens of humans and AI
Pavlos Sermpezis·Athena Vakali·Ilias Dimitriadis·Antonis Galanopoulos·Stelios Karamanidis·Kelly Kiki·Eva Paraschou·Thanasis Troboukis·Filitsa-Ioanna Kouskouveli·Sofia Yfantidou
Abstract Political discourse datasets are important for gaining political insights, analyzing communication strategies or social science phenomena. Although numerous political discourse corpora exist, comprehensive, high-quality, annotated datasets are scarce. This is largely due to the substantial manual effort, multidisciplinarity, and expertise required for the nuanced annotation of rhetorical strategies and ideological contexts. In this paper, we present AgoraSpeech, a meticulously curated,