Annotating Arguments in a Parliamentary Corpus: An Experience

Mare Koit

2020

Abstract

Estonian parliamentary corpus includes verbatim records of sessions held in the Parliament of Estonia (Riigikogu) in 1995-2001. An important task of the Riigikogu is the passing of acts and resolutions. A bill initiated in the Riigikogu will pass three readings, during which it is refined and amended. Negotiation is an important part of parliamentary discussions. Arguments for and against of the bill and its amendments are presented by the members of the Parliament in negotiation. In the paper, arguments used in negotiation are considered. Every argument consists of one or more premises, and a claim (or conclusion). The arguments and the relations between them (rebuttal, attack, and support) are determined with the aim to create a corpus where arguments are annotated. Some problems are discussed in relation with annotation. Our further aim is the automatic recognition of arguments and inter-argument relations in Estonian political texts.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Koit M. (2020). Annotating Arguments in a Parliamentary Corpus: An Experience. In Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2020) - Volume 2: KEOD; ISBN 978-989-758-474-9, SciTePress, pages 213-218. DOI: 10.5220/0010135102130218

in Bibtex Style

@conference{keod20,
author={Mare Koit},
title={Annotating Arguments in a Parliamentary Corpus: An Experience},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2020) - Volume 2: KEOD},
year={2020},
pages={213-218},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010135102130218},
isbn={978-989-758-474-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2020) - Volume 2: KEOD
TI - Annotating Arguments in a Parliamentary Corpus: An Experience
SN - 978-989-758-474-9
AU - Koit M.
PY - 2020
SP - 213
EP - 218
DO - 10.5220/0010135102130218
PB - SciTePress