Parallel Discourse Annotations on a Corpus of Short Texts

Manfred Stede (1) , Stergos Afantenos (2, 3) , Andreas Peldzsus (1) , Nicholas Asher (2, 4) , Jérémy Perret (2)

1 University of Potsdam = Universität Potsdam
2 IRIT-MELODI - MEthodes et ingénierie des Langues, des Ontologies et du DIscours
3 UT3 - Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
4 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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.

Mots clés: Argumentation; Multi-layer annotation; Discourse structure

Domaines: Traitement du texte et du document

Manfred Stede, Stergos Afantenos, Andreas Peldzsus, Nicholas Asher, Jérémy Perret. Parallel Discourse Annotations on a Corpus of Short Texts. 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), May 2016, Portoroz, Slovenia. pp.1051-1058. ⟨hal-02124413⟩