The corpus contains 30 persuasive essays annotated as to argument schemes. The annotation have been undergone on top of Stab and Gurevych’s (2014) annotation of argumentative components (premise/claim/major claim) and “supports” and “attacks” relations. Only the “supports” relations have been annotated.
The folder contains the following files:
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The annotation guidelines used in this study, where the chosen taxonomy of argument schemes as well as the annotation procedure are explained (guidelines.pdf)
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The brat-project including the 30 essays annotated by 9 non-expert untrained annotators (annotationsnontrained.zip)
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The brat-project including the 10 essays annotated by 2 trained and 1 expert annotator (annotationstrained.zip)
To annotate the data we have used the the brat annotation tool (version 1.3 "Crunchy Frog"), which can be downloaded from http://brat.nlplab.org
For exploring the annotation using brat, copy the content of the annotation.zip file to /bratDir/data.