A recorded debating dataset

Shachar Mirkin, Michal Jacovi, Tamar Lavee, Hong Kwang Kuo, Samuel Thomas, Leslie Sager, Lili Kotlerman, Elad Venezian, Noam Slonim

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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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
EditorsHitoshi 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
PublisherEuropean Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Pages250-254
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9791095546009
StatePublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2018 - Miyazaki, Japan
Duration: 7 May 201812 May 2018

Publication series

NameLREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation

Conference

Conference11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2018
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityMiyazaki
Period7/05/1812/05/18

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
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Keywords

  • Argumentation mining
  • Automatic speech recognition
  • Computational argumentation
  • Debating technologies

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