Papers by Leslie Sager
A Recorded Debating Dataset (L18-1)
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Shachar Mirkin, Michal Jacovi, Tamar Lavee, Hong-Kwang Kuo, Samuel Thomas, Leslie Sager, Lili Kotlerman, Elad Venezian, Noam Slonim
| Challenge: | Existing research in computational argumentation and debating technologies focuses on argumentation mining, but other tasks are being addressed as well. |
| Approach: | They describe a dataset of debating speeches in English that is used for research . they use an automatic speech recognition system to produce a more "nLP-friendly" text . |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset contains 60 speeches on various controversial topics, each in five formats corresponding to different stages in production. |