Evidence map›Paper›PMID 42422033›Full record

ArticleData in brief2026

A dataset for detecting emotional manipulation techniques in Lithuanian text.

Rita Butkienė, Algirdas Šukys, Edgaras Dambrauskas, Voldemaras Žitkus, Linas Ablonskis, Evaldas Vaičiukynas, Paulius Danėnas, Rimantas Butleris

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Data in brief, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Rita ButkienėCentre of Information Systems Design Technologies, Faculty of Informatics, Kaunas University of Technology, K. Baršausko st. 59, 51368423, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Algirdas ŠukysCentre of Information Systems Design Technologies, Faculty of Informatics, Kaunas University of Technology, K. Baršausko st. 59, 51368423, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Edgaras DambrauskasCentre of Information Systems Design Technologies, Faculty of Informatics, Kaunas University of Technology, K. Baršausko st. 59, 51368423, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Voldemaras ŽitkusCentre of Information Systems Design Technologies, Faculty of Informatics, Kaunas University of Technology, K. Baršausko st. 59, 51368423, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Linas AblonskisCentre of Information Systems Design Technologies, Faculty of Informatics, Kaunas University of Technology, K. Baršausko st. 59, 51368423, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Evaldas VaičiukynasCentre of Information Systems Design Technologies, Faculty of Informatics, Kaunas University of Technology, K. Baršausko st. 59, 51368423, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Paulius DanėnasCentre of Information Systems Design Technologies, Faculty of Informatics, Kaunas University of Technology, K. Baršausko st. 59, 51368423, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Rimantas ButlerisCentre of Information Systems Design Technologies, Faculty of Informatics, Kaunas University of Technology, K. Baršausko st. 59, 51368423, Kaunas, Lithuania.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper presents a dataset of Lithuanian language comments annotated with emotional manipulation techniques. The source material comprises comments from Lithuanian news portal texts. A total of 1000 comments were selected and manually annotated by four human annotators using Label Studio. The annotators identified text fragments corresponding to fourteen emotional manipulation techniques, producing span-level human annotations that form the primary component of the dataset. In addition to the manual annotations, the dataset includes machine-generated outputs created by the GPT-4.1 model. These outputs were produced by executing prompts designed for the detection and classification of emotional manipulation span. Several prompting strategies were applied, and each prompt was run five times to capture variability in model behaviour. Because GPT-4.1 does not always return verbatim text excerpts, all generated spans were post-processed to extract precise fragments from the original comments and compute their character-level offsets. The resulting dataset encompasses four components: unprocessed source comments, human-annotated spans, prompt templates, and GPT-4.1 generated predictions. The dataset provides the first publicly available Lithuanian resource annotated for emotional manipulation techniques and can support research on manipulation and persuasion phenomena in a morphologically rich, low-resource language. The human annotations may be used as a benchmark for evaluating computational models for span extraction and technique classification. The inclusion of prompts and corresponding GPT-4.1 outputs enables the study of large language model behaviour under different prompting strategies and facilitates prompt engineering research without repeating inference runs. The dataset may also be reused for training or evaluating multilingual and cross-lingual models and offers a foundational framework for the development of annotation schemes and guidelines in related corpus construction efforts.

Indexed as

Dataset annotationEmotional manipulationGPTManipulative span identificationManipulative technique detectionPrompt engineering

Identifiers

PMID42422033
PMCPMC13342914

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.