[Corpora-List] Disagreement / controversy corpus?

[Stefanie Tellex]

I believe the AMI meeting corpus also has some kind of 
agreement/disagreement annotations:  http://corpus.amiproject.org/

There was a cool paper at ICMI this year about detecting agreement in 
dialog that used the annotations:
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/twilson/pubs/icmi-mlmi090.pdf

Stefanie

Ute Römer wrote:
> Dear Steve,
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> Not sure this is the kind of data you are looking for --- but all 152 
> transcripts forming the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English 
> (MICASE, http://micase.elicorpora.info/) have been labeled for some 20 
> pragmatic features including “disagreement” and “sarcasm” (both 
> apparently not uncommon in academic speech...).
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> You find the results of this pragmatic annotation in the MICASE Handbook 
> (R. Simpson-Vlach & S. Leicher, 2006, University of Michigan Press). 
> Part 4 of the Handbook includes a table, the “Pragmatic Features 
> Overview Chart”, that indicates which of the MICASE speech events 
> contain examples of disagreement etc. Once you’ve identified relevant 
> speech events, you can access the corresponding transcripts through the 
> MICASE browse interface at 
> http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/c/corpus/corpus?c=micase;page=mbrowse. Let 
> me know if you have any questions.
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> All the best,
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> Ute
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> English Language Institute
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> *From:* corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] *On 
> Behalf Of *Steven DeRose
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:26 PM
> *To:* corpora at uib.no
> *Subject:* [Corpora-List] Disagreement / controversy corpus?
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> Does anyone know of a corpus annotated for heat / disagreement / 
> controversy? There's of course plenty for polarity, but that's not quite 
> the same thing....
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> Thanks for any pointers (literature refs also of course welcome)!
> 
> Steve DeRose
> Dir. of Linguistics, OpenAmplify
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