arg-microtexts-multilayer

This repository holds a corpus of 112 short argumentative texts, annotated according to three different theories of discourse structure.

Layers of annotation

• Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST, Mann and Thompson, 1988)
• Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT, Asher and Lascarides, 2003).
• Argumentation Structure (ARG, Peldszus and Stede, 2013)

Source data

The original text corpus and the annotation of argumentation structures has been described in (Peldszus and Stede, 2015) and is made available here. The annotation of argumentation structure in this repository has a finer segmentation into Elementary Discourse Units (EDU), whereas the original annotation is segmented into coarse Argumentative Discourse Units (ADU).

Code

The code for producing the dependency conversion, the alignment of the dependency structures of the different discourse theories and graph plotting will be made available here soon. Stay tuned.

License and Citation

The corpus, the annotations and the associated code are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. You can find a human-readable summary of the licence agreement here:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

If you are using our corpus for research purposes, please cite the following paper:

Manfred Stede, Stergos Afantenos, Andreas Peldszus, Nicholas Asher and Jérémy Perret
Parallel Discourse Annotations on a Corpus of Short Texts
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), Slovenia, Portorož, May 2016

References

1. Manfred Stede, Stergos Afantenos, Andreas Peldszus, Nicholas Asher and Jérémy Perret Parallel Discourse Annotations on a Corpus of Short Texts Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), Slovenia, Portorož 2016 http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2016/summaries/477.html

2. Andreas Peldszus, Manfred Stede An annotated corpus of argumentative microtexts First European Conference on Argumentation: Argumentation and Reasoned Action, Portugal, Lisbon, 2015

3. Andreas Peldszus, Manfred Stede From Argument Diagrams to Argumentation Mining in Texts: A survey. International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence (IJCINI) Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages 1-31 2013

4. Nicholas Asher and Alex Lascarides Logics of Conversation Cambridge University Press 2003

5. William C. Mann and Sandra Thompson Rhetorical structure theory: Towards a functional theory of text organization. TEXT, Volume 8, Pages 243-281 1988