RST Discourse Treebank
- English
Description
Taken from the guidelines (see link above):
This reference manual presents the guidelines used to develop a large discourse-annotated corpus for community-wide use. The resulting resource consists of 385 documents of American English selected from the Penn Treebank (Marcus, et al, 1993), annotated in the framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory. We assume here that the reader is familiar with the basic principle of RST, as presented in Mann and Thompson (1988). We also refer the reader to Carlson et al. (2001), which describes a number of issues and challenges in building this corpus, and to Marcu et al. (1999), which addresses experimental issues in annotating the discourse structure of entire texts in the RST framework.
Domains and Genres
- news
References
Lynn Carlson and Daniel Marcu. 2001. Discourse Tagging Manual. ISI Tech Report ISI-TR-545. July 2001.