A Multi-layer Annotated Corpus of Argumentative Text: From Argument Schemes to Discourse Relations (L18-1)
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| Challenge: | Recent interest in Argumentation Mining has brought to the fore the need for corpora annotated with argument information, which can be used as training data. |
| Approach: | They propose a set of guidelines for the annotation of argument schemes and a new annotation tool for the 'inferential' argument schemes. |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus includes 112 argumentative microtexts and a new annotation tool. |
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