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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">This is great! Thank you, Andrew, for making the corpus available.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">- Maite<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#C00000">Maite Taboada
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</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Distinguished SFU Professor | Department of Linguistics<br>
Simon Fraser University | RCB 8109<br>
8888 University Dr., Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6, Canada. <br>
T: +1 778 782 5585 | <a href="mailto:mtaboada@sfu.ca"><span style="color:black">mtaboada@sfu.ca</span></a>
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<a href="http://www.sfu.ca/~mtaboada"><span style="color:black">http://www.sfu.ca/~mtaboada</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Rstlist <rstlist-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Andrew Potter<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 8, 2024 9:25 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> rstlist@listserv.linguistlist.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Rstlist] New RST corpus available<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1" style="margin:0cm"><span class="s1"><span style="color:black">Rummaging about on my harddrive recently I realized I have been sitting on a substantial corpus of RST analyses. I’ve decided to make it available to the RST community.</span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color:black">The corpus consists of 328 RST analyses of messages posted during online discussions that took place in courses offered at Nova Southeastern University between 2003 and 2005. The RST analyses were performed in 2006.
Discussion participants have been anonymized. The conferencing software used in the courses included Allaire Forums and WebCT. </span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color:black">The RST analyses are in RS3 format.</span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color:black">Please feel free to make use of these in your RST research. Comments and suggestions are welcome.</span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s2"><u><span style="color:black"><a href="https://github.com/anpotter/Online-Learning-Corpus">https://github.com/anpotter/Online-Learning-Corpus</a></span></u></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color:black"> Regards,</span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="color:black">Andrew</span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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