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title = "The Discussion Tracker Corpus of Collaborative Argumentation",
author = "Olshefski, Christopher and
Lugini, Luca and
Singh, Ravneet and
Litman, Diane and
Godley, Amanda",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
B{\'e}chet, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric and
Blache, Philippe and
Choukri, Khalid and
Cieri, Christopher and
Declerck, Thierry and
Goggi, Sara and
Isahara, Hitoshi and
Maegaard, Bente and
Mariani, Joseph and
Mazo, H{\'e}l{\`e}ne and
Moreno, Asuncion and
Odijk, Jan and
Piperidis, Stelios",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
month = may,
year = "2020",
address = "Marseille, France",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.130",
pages = "1033--1043",
abstract = "Although NLP research on argument mining has advanced considerably in recent years, most studies draw on corpora of asynchronous and written texts, often produced by individuals. Few published corpora of synchronous, multi-party argumentation are available. The Discussion Tracker corpus, collected in high school English classes, is an annotated dataset of transcripts of spoken, multi-party argumentation. The corpus consists of 29 multi-party discussions of English literature transcribed from 985 minutes of audio. The transcripts were annotated for three dimensions of collaborative argumentation: argument moves (claims, evidence, and explanations), specificity (low, medium, high) and collaboration (e.g., extensions of and disagreements about others{'} ideas). In addition to providing descriptive statistics on the corpus, we provide performance benchmarks and associated code for predicting each dimension separately, illustrate the use of the multiple annotations in the corpus to improve performance via multi-task learning, and finally discuss other ways the corpus might be used to further NLP research.",
language = "English",
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%T The Discussion Tracker Corpus of Collaborative Argumentation
%A Olshefski, Christopher
%A Lugini, Luca
%A Singh, Ravneet
%A Litman, Diane
%A Godley, Amanda
%Y Calzolari, Nicoletta
%Y Béchet, Frédéric
%Y Blache, Philippe
%Y Choukri, Khalid
%Y Cieri, Christopher
%Y Declerck, Thierry
%Y Goggi, Sara
%Y Isahara, Hitoshi
%Y Maegaard, Bente
%Y Mariani, Joseph
%Y Mazo, Hélène
%Y Moreno, Asuncion
%Y Odijk, Jan
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%S Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
%D 2020
%8 May
%I European Language Resources Association
%C Marseille, France
%@ 979-10-95546-34-4
%G English
%F olshefski-etal-2020-discussion
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%P 1033-1043
Markdown (Informal)
[The Discussion Tracker Corpus of Collaborative Argumentation](https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.130) (Olshefski et al., LREC 2020)
ACL
- Christopher Olshefski, Luca Lugini, Ravneet Singh, Diane Litman, and Amanda Godley. 2020. The Discussion Tracker Corpus of Collaborative Argumentation. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 1033–1043, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.