---
configs:
- config_name: all
  data_files:
  - split: train
    path: '*/train*.json'
  - split: validation
    path: '*/validation.json'
  - split: test
    path: '*/test.json'
  default: true
- config_name: budget2018
  data_dir: budget2018
- config_name: microblogs
  data_dir: microblogs
- config_name: social_media
  data_dir: social_media
license: cc-by-nc-4.0
task_categories:
- text-classification
language:
- mt
pretty_name: SentiMalti
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
---

# SentiMalti

A Maltese sentiment analysis dataset from a variety of sources.
This dataset is an extension of the [Budget 2018](https://aclanthology.org/D19-5547/) and [Microblogs](https://www.thinkmind.org/library/SEMAPRO/SEMAPRO_2016/semapro_2016_1_40_30007.html) datasets.
This data also includes a newly created data portion scraped from various social media sources and annotated using [crowd-sourcing](https://nlpgroup.research.um.edu.mt/sentiment/).
The sentiment labels are: `positive`, `negative`, `neutral`.

The previous datasets are included as separate configs under `budget2018` & `microblogs`.
The newly created data is available under the `social_media` config.
The default config (`all`) contains the data from all configs.
We ensure that any data from [Evaluating morphological typology in zero-shot cross-lingual transfer](https://github.com/jerbarnes/typology_of_crosslingual/tree/master/data/sentiment/mt) is kept in the same train/validation/test splits, and we additionally include instances with a `neutral` label.


## License

This work is licensed under a
[Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License][cc-by-nc-sa].
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at [https://mlrs.research.um.edu.mt/](https://mlrs.research.um.edu.mt/).

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## Citation

This work was first presented in [SentiMalti: A Maltese Sentiment Analysis Dataset and Models](#).
Cite it as follows: 

```bibtex
@inproceedings{SentiMalti,
    title = "{S}enti{M}alti: A {M}altese Sentiment Analysis Dataset and Models",
    author = "Caruana, Ian and
      Vella, Matthew and
      Zammit, Fabio and
      Micallef, Kurt and
      Borg, Claudia",
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fifteenth Biennial Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)},
    month = may,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Palma, Mallorca, Spain",
    publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
}
```

The `budget2018` & `microblogs` subsets are based from previous works, which you can cite as follows:

```bibtex
@inproceedings{SentiMalti_budget2018,
    title = "A Social Opinion Gold Standard for the {M}alta Government Budget 2018",
    author = "Cortis, Keith  and
      Davis, Brian",
    editor = "Xu, Wei  and
      Ritter, Alan  and
      Baldwin, Tim  and
      Rahimi, Afshin",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2019)",
    month = nov,
    year = "2019",
    address = "Hong Kong, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/D19-5547/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/D19-5547",
    pages = "364--369",
}
```

```bibtex
@inproceedings{SentiMalti_microblogs,
    author    = {Dingli, Alexei and
            Sant, Nicole},
    title     = {Sentiment Analysis on {M}altese using Machine Learning},
    booktitle = {The Tenth International Conference on Advances in Semantic Processing ({SEMAPRO} 2016)},
    pages     = {21--25},
    year      = {2016},
    url       = {https://www.thinkmind.org/library/SEMAPRO/SEMAPRO_2016/semapro_2016_1_40_30007.html},
}
```