[Corpora-List] Disagreement / controversy corpus?

[Matthew Purver]

You could also look at this paper which looks at a similar 
agreement/disagreement task on the ICSI Meeting corpus:

http://nlp.stanford.edu/~mgalley/papers/acl04-agreement.pdf


Stefanie Tellex wrote:
> 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,
>>
>>  
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>  
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Ute
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>> Dr. Ute Römer
>>
>> Director of the Applied Corpus Linguistics Unit
>>
>> English Language Institute
>>
>> University of Michigan
>>
>> Email: uroemer at umich.edu <mailto:uroemer at umich.edu>
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>> Phone: +1 734 763 7133
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>> http://www.elicorpora.info
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>> http://www.uteroemer.com
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>> Surface mail address:
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>> Dr. Ute Römer
>>
>> University of Michigan
>>
>> English Language Institute
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>> 500 E. Washington Street
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>> Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2028
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>> USA
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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?
>>
>>  
>>
>>
>> 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....
>>
>> Thanks for any pointers (literature refs also of course welcome)!
>>
>> Steve DeRose
>> Dir. of Linguistics, OpenAmplify
>>
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Matthew Purver - http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/~mpurver/

Senior Research Fellow
Interaction, Media and Communication
Department of Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK

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