The persuasive essays for rating, selecting, and understanding argumentative and discourse elements (PERSUADE) corpus 1.0

Scott A Crossley; Perpetual Baffour; Yu Tian; Aigner Picou; Meg Benner; Ulrich Boser

doi:10.1016/j.asw.2022.100667

The persuasive essays for rating, selecting, and understanding argumentative and discourse elements (PERSUADE) corpus 1.0

Assess Writ. 2022 Oct:54:None. doi: 10.1016/j.asw.2022.100667.

Authors

Scott A Crossley¹, Perpetual Baffour¹, Yu Tian¹, Aigner Picou¹, Meg Benner¹, Ulrich Boser¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Special Education Peabody College Vanderbilt University 110 Magnolia Circle Nashville, TN 37212.

Abstract

This paper introduces the Persuasive Essays for Rating, Selecting, and Understanding Argumentative and Discourse Elements (PERSUADE) corpus.The PERSUADE corpus is large-scale corpus of writing with annotated discourse elements. The goal of the corpus is to spur the development of new, open-source scoring algorithms that identify discourse elements in argumentative writing to open new avenues for the development of automatic writing evaluation systems that focus more specifically on the semantic and organizational elements of student writing.

Keywords: Corpus; Discourse elements; Persuasive writing.