Towards Building Annotated Resources for Analyzing Opinions and Argumentation in News Editorials

This paper describes an annotation scheme for argumentation in opinionated texts such as newspaper editorials, elaborated from a corpus of approximately 500 English texts from Nepali and international newspaper sources. From this study, we have elaborated a set of lexical elements which can then be used to identify, with respect to an opinion or a controversial issue, arguments supporting this opinion, their orientation and their strength (intrinsic, relative and in terms of persuasion).

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Bal Krishna Bal, Patrick Saint-Dizier
• Keywords: Annotation Scheme, Education, English Texts, Lexical Elements, LREC 2010