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title = "{SKILL}-{IR}-Discourse: A Large, Annotated Corpus of Argumentation and Domain Discourse on International Relations",
author = {Wolska, Magdalena and
Wiegmann, Matti and
Gholiagha, Sassan and
Sienknecht, Mitja and
Kiesel, Dora and
Lopez Garcia, Irene and
Riehmann, Patrick and
Fr{\"o}hlich, Bernd and
Girgensohn, Katrin and
Neyer, J{\"u}rgen and
Stein, Benno},
editor = "Piperidis, Stelios and
Bel, N{\'u}ria and
van den Heuvel, Henk and
Ide, Nancy and
Krek, Simon and
Toral, Antonio",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
month = may,
year = "2026",
address = "Palma de Mallorca, Spain",
publisher = "ELRA Language Resource Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.513/",
doi = "10.63317/4i2ptc5x4ese",
pages = "6472--6482",
abstract = "We present a large annotated corpus of scholarly discourse in the domain of International Relations, a subfield of political science. The corpus comprises 190 articles (over 1500K tokens) annotated at the argumentation, basic rhetorical, and domain level. Five of the included articles (ca. 62K tokens) constitute a Gold-standard, coded by domain experts. The remaining articles were coded by annotators trained on the Gold-standard and monitored for annotation quality. We describe our corpus creation methodology, the annotation process and quality assurance, the corpus itself, and present insights into the data: Most argumentative structures in the data are simple premise-conclusion structures, fewer than half of the claims have explicit supporting evidence. Counter-arguments to claims are rare. The claim-to-support ratio varies widely between articles; possibly to some extent due to the topics covered (with clear common ground) or to the differences between authors' styles. The distribution of theoretical vs. evaluative statements varies strongly between articles; this can be attributed to such factors as different methodological approaches between the articles and the methodological focus of the publishing journal."
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%T SKILL-IR-Discourse: A Large, Annotated Corpus of Argumentation and Domain Discourse on International Relations
%A Wolska, Magdalena
%A Wiegmann, Matti
%A Gholiagha, Sassan
%A Sienknecht, Mitja
%A Kiesel, Dora
%A Lopez Garcia, Irene
%A Riehmann, Patrick
%A Fröhlich, Bernd
%A Girgensohn, Katrin
%A Neyer, Jürgen
%A Stein, Benno
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%Y Bel, Núria
%Y van den Heuvel, Henk
%Y Ide, Nancy
%Y Krek, Simon
%Y Toral, Antonio
%S Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
%D 2026
%8 May
%I ELRA Language Resource Association
%C Palma de Mallorca, Spain
%F wolska-etal-2026-skill
%X We present a large annotated corpus of scholarly discourse in the domain of International Relations, a subfield of political science. The corpus comprises 190 articles (over 1500K tokens) annotated at the argumentation, basic rhetorical, and domain level. Five of the included articles (ca. 62K tokens) constitute a Gold-standard, coded by domain experts. The remaining articles were coded by annotators trained on the Gold-standard and monitored for annotation quality. We describe our corpus creation methodology, the annotation process and quality assurance, the corpus itself, and present insights into the data: Most argumentative structures in the data are simple premise-conclusion structures, fewer than half of the claims have explicit supporting evidence. Counter-arguments to claims are rare. The claim-to-support ratio varies widely between articles; possibly to some extent due to the topics covered (with clear common ground) or to the differences between authors’ styles. The distribution of theoretical vs. evaluative statements varies strongly between articles; this can be attributed to such factors as different methodological approaches between the articles and the methodological focus of the publishing journal.
%R 10.63317/4i2ptc5x4ese
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.513/
%U https://doi.org/10.63317/4i2ptc5x4ese
%P 6472-6482
Markdown (Informal)
[SKILL-IR-Discourse: A Large, Annotated Corpus of Argumentation and Domain Discourse on International Relations](https://aclanthology.org/2026.lrec-1.513/) (Wolska et al., LREC 2026)
ACL
- Magdalena Wolska, Matti Wiegmann, Sassan Gholiagha, Mitja Sienknecht, Dora Kiesel, Irene Lopez Garcia, Patrick Riehmann, Bernd Fröhlich, Katrin Girgensohn, Jürgen Neyer, and Benno Stein. 2026. SKILL-IR-Discourse: A Large, Annotated Corpus of Argumentation and Domain Discourse on International Relations. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 6472–6482, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. ELRA Language Resource Association.