AraHopeCorpus: Annotation Guidelines and Dataset for Hope Speech in Arabic Social Media Crisis Discourse
Social media has become a crucial arena for shaping public narratives during armed conflicts, providing space for both harmful and constructive communication. While hate speech and misinformation have been widely studied, expressions that promote resilience, solidarity, and optimism remain underexplored, particularly in Arabic contexts. This paper introduces AraHopeCorpus, the first annotated dataset of Arabic hope speech collected from ten thousand YouTube comments related to the war on Gaza between 2023 and 2024. Using a detailed annotation framework, comments were classified into three categories: hope speech, no hope speech, and neutral or unclear discourse. The dataset shows that hop...
| Authors | Esra'a Sharqawi, Wajdi Zaghouani |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 22 May 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 22 May 2026 |
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