args.me Corpus

Synopsis

args.me corpus comprises 387 606 arguments crawled from four debate portals in the middle of 2019. The debate portals are Debatewise, IDebate.org, Debatepedia, and Debate.org. The arguments are extracted using heuristics that are designed for each debate portal.

Download

To download the corpus use the following link:

• args.me Corpus [version: original, latest]

Each argument in the corpus is represented by the following fields:

• conclusion
• premises: each premise is modeled as stance, text
• id
• context: sourceTitle, sourceId, nextArgumentInSourceId, sourceUrl, discussionTitle, previousArgumentInSourceId, acquisitionTime

People

• Yamen Ajjour
• Henning Wachsmuth
• Johannes Kiesel
• Martin Potthast
• Matthias Hagen
• Benno Stein

Publications