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RST Discourse Treebank

Item Name: RST Discourse Treebank
Authors: Lynn Carlson, Daniel Marcu, and Mary Ellen Okurowski
LDC Catalog No.: LDC2002T07
ISBN: 1-58563-223-6
Release Date: Feb 21, 2002
Data Type: text
Data Source(s): newswire
Application(s): discourse analysis, message understanding
Language(s): English
Language ID(s): eng
Distribution: Web Download
Member fee: $0 for 2002 members
Non-member Fee: US $500.00
Reduced-License Fee: US $250.00
Extra-Copy Fee: N/A
Non-member License: yes
Online documentation: yes
Licensing Instructions: Subscription Members, Standard Members, Non-Members
Citation: Lynn Carlson, Daniel Marcu, and Mary Ellen Okurowski
2002
RST Discourse Treebank
Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia

Introduction

This is the Rhetorical Structure Theory Discourse Treebank Publication, produced by the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog number LDC2002T07 and ISBN 1-58563-223-6.

Data

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.

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