“#DisabledOnIndianTwitter” : A Dataset towards Understanding the Expression of People with Disabilities on Indian Twitter
Ishani Mondal, Sukhnidh Kaur, Kalika Bali, Aditya Vashistha, Manohar Swaminathan · 2022
Twitter serves as a powerful tool for selfexpression among people with disabilities.To understand how disabled Indians use Twitter, we introduce a manually annotated corpus #DisabledOnIndianTwitter comprising 2,384 tweets published by 27 female and 15 male users.To examine patterns in Twitter use, we propose a novel hierarchical annotation taxonomy to classify the tweets into various themes including discrimination, advocacy, and self-identification.Using these annotations, we benchmark the corpus leveraging state-of-theart classifiers.We use a mixed-methods analysis to showcase differences in self-expression among male and female disabled users.