Parallel Discourse Annotations on a Corpus of Short Texts

Manfred Stede, Stergos Afantenos, Andreas Peldszus, Nicholas Asher, Jérémy Perret


Abstract
We present the first corpus of texts annotated with two alternative approaches to discourse structure, Rhetorical Structure Theory (Mann and Thompson, 1988) and Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (Asher and Lascarides, 2003). 112 short argumentative texts have been analyzed according to these two theories. Furthermore, in previous work, the same texts have already been annotated for their argumentation structure, according to the scheme of Peldszus and Stede (2013). This corpus therefore enables studies of correlations between the two accounts of discourse structure, and between discourse and argumentation. We converted the three annotation formats to a common dependency tree format that enables to compare the structures, and we describe some initial findings.
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L16-1167
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Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
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May
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2016
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Portorož, Slovenia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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1051–1058
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Manfred Stede, Stergos Afantenos, Andreas Peldszus, Nicholas Asher, and Jérémy Perret. 2016. Parallel Discourse Annotations on a Corpus of Short Texts. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 1051–1058, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Parallel Discourse Annotations on a Corpus of Short Texts (Stede et al., LREC 2016)
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