Abstract
This paper describes an English audio and textual dataset of debating speeches, a unique resource for the growing research field of computational argumentation and debating technologies. We detail the process of speech recording by professional debaters, the transcription of the speeches with an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system, their consequent automatic processing to produce a text that is more “NLP-friendly”, and in parallel - the manual transcription of the speeches in order to produce gold-standard “reference” transcripts. We release 60 speeches on various controversial topics, each in five formats corresponding to the different stages in the production of the data. The intention is to allow utilizing this resource for multiple research purposes, be it the addition of in-domain training data for a debate-specific ASR system, or applying argumentation mining on either noisy or clean debate transcripts. We intend to make further releases of this data in the future.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation |
Editors | Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Stelios Piperidis, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Koiti Hasida, Helene Mazo, Khalid Choukri, Sara Goggi, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Nicoletta Calzolari, Jan Odijk, Takenobu Tokunaga |
Publisher | European Language Resources Association (ELRA) |
Pages | 250-254 |
Number of pages | 5 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9791095546009 |
State | Published - 2019 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2018 - Miyazaki, Japan Duration: 7 May 2018 → 12 May 2018 |
Publication series
Name | LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation |
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Conference
Conference | 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2018 |
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Country/Territory | Japan |
City | Miyazaki |
Period | 7/05/18 → 12/05/18 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. All rights reserved.
Keywords
- Argumentation mining
- Automatic speech recognition
- Computational argumentation
- Debating technologies