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

This paper introduces the Persuasive Essays for Rating, Selecting, and Understanding Argumen-tative 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

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This paper introduces the PERSUADE corpus, a large-scale corpus of writing with annotated discourse elements. The goal of the corpus is to stimulate the development of new, open-source scoring algorithms that can identify discourse elements in argumentative writing. This will open up new possibilities for the development of automatic writing evaluation systems that focus specifically on the semantic and organizational elements of student writing.