Undergraduate Research Student Presents the Corpus of Digital Impoliteness at Academic Event
Undergraduate research student Daniel Ferreira, a member of the Digital Impoliteness project, presented “CID – Corpus de Impolidez” [CID – Impoliteness Corpus] at UFMG’s 2026 Knowledge Week, whose theme was “Women in Science: inspiring journeys, transformative knowledge”. Supervised by Professor Ana Larissa Adorno Marciotto Oliveira, from UFMG’s Faculty of Letters, the work explored the development and organisation of the corpus and its contributions to studying verbal attacks on social media.
In his presentation, Daniel highlighted the objectives and procedures for collecting and classifying the comments that make up the Corpus of Digital Impoliteness (CID). Developed as part of a CNPq-funded project, in collaboration with researchers from Brazilian and international universities, the corpus provides a basis for investigating impoliteness, verbal aggression and delegitimisation directed at public figures.
The presentation covered data concerning Brazilian federal deputies Sâmia Bomfim, Érika Hilton and Duda Salabert, and Supreme Court Justice Cármen Lúcia, as well as the expansion of the corpus to include comments about Benedita da Silva, Carla Zambelli and German legal scholar Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf. These materials allow researchers to explore the relationships between personal attacks, gender, sexuality and institutional delegitimisation.
The CID is a resource for students and researchers interested in the relationships between language, power and human rights. It is available on the Sketch Engine platform, with access granted upon request to the team at impolidezdigital@gmail.com, as detailed on this page. In the video below, Daniel explains the work and presents the main objectives and contributions of the Corpus of Digital Impoliteness.
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