@inproceedings{49d78bd2a4d9427d8a98fc0dff192e2b,
title = "Seeds of Discourse: A Multilingual Corpus of Direct Quotations from African Media on Agricultural Biotechnologies",
abstract = "Direct quotations play a crucial role in journalism by substantiating claims and enhancing persuasive communication. This makes news articles a rich resource for opinion mining, providing valuable insights into the topics they cover. This paper presents the first multilingual corpora (English and French) featuring both manually annotated (1,657) and automatically extracted (102,483) direct quotations related to agricultural biotechnologies from a curated list of Africa-based news sources. In addition, we provide 665 instances annotated for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis, enabling a fine-grained examination of sentiment toward key aspects of agricultural biotechnologies. These corpora are freely available to the research community for future work on media discourse surrounding agricultural biotechnologies.",
author = "Patricia Chiril and Trevor Spreadbury and Rock, \{Joeva Sean\} and Brian Dowd-Uribe and David Uminsky",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright}2025 Association for Computational Linguistics.; 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, NAACL 2025 ; Conference date: 29-04-2025 Through 04-05-2025",
year = "2025",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.findings-naacl.473",
language = "English",
series = "2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the Conference Findings, NAACL 2025",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)",
pages = "8509--8515",
editor = "Luis Chiruzzo and Alan Ritter and Lu Wang",
booktitle = "2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
}