Replication data for: A corpus-assisted sentiment analysis of Chinese social media discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

TitleReplication Package – A Corpus-Assisted Sentiment Analysis of Chinese Social Media Discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Study of Machine-Translated Weibo Posts AuthorAnonymous DateDecember 2025 Version1.0 LicenseCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0) DOIhttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17902203 DescriptionThis replication package contains all data, code, figures, and supplementary tables necessary to fully reproduce the results reported in the paper “A Corpus-Assisted Sentiment Analysis of Chinese Social Media Discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Study of Machine-Translated Weibo Posts”. All user identifiers, usernames, profile links, and any potentially identifying information have been irreversibly removed. The package contains only publicly available, anonymised Weibo posts collected between October 2023 and January 2024. Contents├── data/ ├── weibo_cleaned.csv → Final cleaned corpus (8,046 unique posts) ├── posts_1000_translated.csv → 1001-post validation subsample with GPT-4 translations ├── posts_1000_translated_updated.xlsx → Same subsample with additional metadata ├── posts_1000_with_GLM4_FAST.xlsx → GLM-4-flash sentiment scores on subsample └── Manual_Coding_240_Posts_...xlsx → Inter-coder reliability sample (240 posts) ├── code/ → 17 Python scripts (.py) that perform cleaning, sentiment scoring, validation, figures, tables, and clustering (run in numerical order for full replication) ├── figures/ → All 11 publication-quality figures exactly as they appear in the manuscript ├── Appendix_tables.xlsx and .csv/ → Full tables for Appendices A–G (keywords, collocations, n-grams, 80 extreme translation cases, GLM-4 prompts, etc.) Software requirementsPython 3.10+ with the following packages:pandas, numpy, matplotlib, seaborn, scikit-learn, jieba, snownlp, vaderSentiment, plotdb