RWWD Dataset

Real World Worry Dataset (RWWD) captures the emotional responses of UK residents to COVID-19 at a point in time where the impact of the COVID19 situation affected the lives of all individuals in the UK. The data were collected on the 6th and 7th of April 2020, a time at which the UK was under lockdown (news, 2020), and death tolls were increasing. On April 6, 5,373 people in the UK had died of the virus, and 51,608 tested positive. On the day before data collection, the Queen addressed the nation via a television broadcast. Furthermore, it was also announced that Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to intensive care in a hospital for COVID-19 symptoms.

The RWWD is a ground truth dataset that used a direct survey method and obtained written accounts of people alongside data of their felt emotions while writing. As such, the dataset does not rely on third-person annotation but can resort to direct self-reported emotions. Two versions of RWWD are presented, each consisting of 2,500 English
texts representing the participants’ genuine emotional responses to Corona situation in the UK: the Long RWWD consists of texts that were openended in length and asked the participants to express their feelings as they wish. The Short RWWD asked the same people also to express their feelings in Tweet-sized texts. The latter was chosen
to facilitate the use of this dataset for Twitter data research.

真实世界忧虑数据集（RWWD）捕捉了英国居民在新冠疫情影响全民生活的关键时刻对COVID-19的情感反应。该数据集于2020年4月6日和7日收集，当时英国正处于封锁状态（news, 2020），死亡人数正在增加。4月6日，英国已有5,373人死于病毒，51,608人检测呈阳性。在数据收集的前一天，女王通过电视广播向全国发表讲话。此外，还宣布首相鲍里斯·约翰逊因COVID-19症状被送入医院重症监护。RWWD是一个基准数据集，采用直接调查方法，收集了人们在写作过程中所感受到的情感数据的书面记录。因此，该数据集不依赖于第三方的标注，而是可以依靠直接的自我报告情感。RWWD提供了两种版本，每个版本包含2,500篇英文文本，代表了参与者对英国新冠疫情的真实情感反应：长版RWWD包含开放式长度的文本，要求参与者自由表达自己的感受。短版RWWD则要求同一位参与者以推文大小的文本表达自己的感受。后者被选择是为了便于将该数据集用于推特数据研究。