Name: journalists_questions 
Description: crowdsorucing to collect
  binary annotations for 10K of the potential question tweets
  based on whether they truly contain questions or not
Provider: Qatar University
Paper Title: What Questions Do Journalists Ask on Twitter?
Tasks: question answering 
Venue Name: International Conference on Web and Social Media
Authors: Maram Hasanain,Mossaab Bagdouri,T. Elsayed,D. Oard
Abstract: Social media platforms are a major source of information for both the general public and for journalists. Journalists use Twitter and other social media services to gather story ideas, to find eyewitnesses, and for a wide range of other purposes. One way in which journalists use Twitter is to ask questions. This paper reports on an empirical investigation of questions asked by Arab journalists on Twitter. The analysis begins with the development of an ontology of question types, proceeds to human annotation of training and test data, and concludes by reporting the level of accuracy that can be achieved with automated classification techniques. The results show good classifier effectiveness for high prevalence question types, but that obtaining sufficient training data for lower prevalence question types can be challenging.