A Benchmark Dataset for Automatic Detection of Claims and Evidence in the Context of Controversial Topics

Ehud Aharoni, Anatoly Polnarov, Tamar Lavee, Daniel Hershcovich, Ran Levy, Ruty Rinott, Dan Gutfreund, Noam Slonim

Abstract: We describe a novel and unique argumentative structure dataset. This corpus consists of data extracted fro m hundreds of Wikipedia articles using a meticulously monitored manual annotation process. The result is 2,683 argument elements, collected in the context of 33 controversial topics, organized under a simp le claim-evidence structure. The obtained data are publicly available for academic research.