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European Network for Argumentation and Public Policy Analysis
News articles reporting on the climate change summits of 2000, 2001, 2006 and 2012. Restricted access – contact author for more information or specific conditions
News articles reporting on a direct action against a field trial of genetically modified potatoes in 2011. Restricted access – contact author for more information or specific conditions
Newspaper articles reporting on new applications for genetically modified (GM) food between January and June 1998 and on the EU moratorium of June 1999. Restricted access – contact author for more information or specific conditions
The corpus is made up of articles published in the online editions of four Romanian newspapers in the months of August and September 2013. It was collected in 2014 (spring and summer) by using “Rosia Montana” as keyword. The articles (news stories and editorials) cover the massive civic protests that took place in Romania, in 2013, against the implementation of…
Multilingual (German, French, Italian) Swiss web corpus with texts collected from selected web sources; designed to support data-based and data-driven research on societal and political discourses in Switzerland; includes news and specialist publications, governmental opinions, and parliamentary records, web sites of political parties, companies, and universities, statements from industry associations and NGOs; linguistically annotated on multiple layers (part-of-speech, lemma, named…
21 interviews in English, 4 in Portuguese. Mean interview time about 110 mins. Conducted in the second half of 2017. Transcribed verbatim. Partly annotated and the parts annotated are used for publications. Restricted access – contact author for more information or specific conditions [Doi: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2020.101244]
The corpus consists of more than 25,000 sentences over eight topics with high quality annotations done by crowdworkers. Each sentence is annotated as either an argument, including the stance towards the topic (pro or con), or no argument. The sentences origin from heterogeneous text types and the eight topics allow for cross-topic experiments.
An important skill in critical thinking and argumentation is the ability to spot and recognize fallacies. Fallacious arguments, omnipresent in argumentative discourse, can be deceptive, manipulative, or simply leading to `wrong moves’ in a discussion. This corpus contains English and German fallacious arguments collected through the serious-game Argotario. Each argument is labeled as non-fallacious or containing exactly one type of…
70 Online News items from 2014-2017 about non ionizing radiation from Israeli news websites. Includes also talk-backs/user comments to 48 of them. Restricted access – contact author for more information or specific conditions
The corpus describes the main arguments found in French articles based on a research on Europresse. We selected articles based on keywords (carbon+capture+storage and/or geological+storage). We coded each article depending on the actors mentionned in the text (one line per actor) and the arguments they broadcasted. Arguments which were not attached to a specific actor were attached automatically to the…
