RST

Description

This is the Rhetorical Structure Theory Discourse Treebank Publication, produced by the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2002T07 and isbn 21-58563-223-6. RST Discourse Treebank contains a selection of 385 Wall Street Journal articles from the Penn Treebank which have been annotated with discourse structure in the framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST). In addition, the corpus includes a number of humanly-generated extracts and abstracts associated with the original documents. All annotations were produced using a discourse annotation tool that can be downloaded from http://www.isi.edu/~marcu/discourse.

Contact

• Authors: Lynn Carlson, Daniel Marcu, Mary Ellen Okurowski
• URL: http://www.isi.edu/~marcu/discourse

Features:

• Data type: text
• Data source(s): newswire
• Application(s): discourse analysis, message understanding
• Language(s): English
• Number of CDs: (ftp file)
• Nonmember price: US$100

-- MichaelDaum - 04 Apr 2002