This paper describes the Metalogue Debate Trainee Corpus (DTC). DTC has been collected and annotated in order to facilitate the design of instructional and interactive models for Virtual Debate Coach application - an intelligent tutoring system used by young parliamentarians to train their debate skills. The training is concerned with the use of appropriate multimodal rhetorical devices in order to improve (1) the organization of arguments, (2) arguments' content selection, and (3) argument delivery techniques. DTC contains tracking data from motion and speech capturing devices and semantic annotations - dialogue acts - as defined in ISO 24617-2 and discourse relations as defined in ISO 24617-8. The corpus comes with a manual describing the data collection process, annotation activities including an overview of basic concepts and their definitions including annotation schemes and guidelines on how to apply them, tools and other resources. DTC will be released in the ELRA catalogue in second half of 2018.
@InProceedings{PETUKHOVA18.186, author = {Volha Petukhova and Andrei Malchanau and Youssef Oualil and Dietrich Klakow and Saturnino Luz and Fasih Haider and Nick Campbell and Dimitris Koryzis and Dimitris Spiliotopoulos and Pierre Albert and Nicklas Linz and Jan Alexandersson}, title = "{The Metalogue Debate Trainee Corpus: Data Collection and Annotations}", booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {May 7-12, 2018}, address = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference chair) and Khalid Choukri and Christopher Cieri and Thierry Declerck and Sara Goggi and Koiti Hasida and Hitoshi Isahara and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Hélène Mazo and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis and Takenobu Tokunaga}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {979-10-95546-00-9}, language = {english} }
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