Disco-Annotation

Description Disco-Annotation is a collection of training and test sets with manually annotated discourse relations for 8 discourse connectives in europarl texts. The 8 connectives with their annotated relations are: although (contrast|concession) as (prep|causal|temporal|comparison|concession) however (contrast|concession) meanwhile (contrast|temporal) since (causal|temporal|temporal-causal) though (contrast|concession) while (contrast|concession|temporal|temporal-contrast|temporal-causal) yet (adv|contrast|concession) For each connective there is a training set and a test set. The relations were annotated by two trained annotators with a translation spotting method. The division into training and test also allows for comparison reasons if you train your own models. If you need software for the latter, have a look at: https://github.com/idiap/DiscoConn-Classifier Citation Please cite the following papers if you make use of these datasets (and to know more about the annotation method): @INPROCEEDINGS{Popescu-Belis-LREC-2012, author = {Popescu-Belis, Andrei and Meyer, Thomas and Liyanapathirana, Jeevanthi and Cartoni, Bruno and Zufferey, Sandrine}, title = {{D}iscourse-level {A}nnotation over {E}uroparl for {M}achine {T}ranslation: {C}onnectives and {P}ronouns}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the eighth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC})}, year = {2012}, address = {Istanbul, Turkey} } @Article{Cartoni-DD-2013, Author = {Cartoni, Bruno and Zufferey, Sandrine and Meyer, Thomas}, Title = {{Annotating the meaning of discourse connectives by looking at their translation: The translation-spotting technique}}, Journal = {Dialogue \& Discourse}, Volume = {4}, Number = {2}, pages = {65--86}, year = {2013} } @ARTICLE{Meyer-TSLP-submitted, author = {Meyer, Thomas and Hajlaoui, Najeh and Popescu-Belis, Andrei}, title = {{Disambiguating Discourse Connectives for Statistical Machine Translation in Several Languages}}, journal = {IEEE/ACM Transactions of Audio, Speech, and Language Processing}, year = {submitted}, volume = {}, pages = {}, number = {} }