Are you being rhetorical? A description of rhetorical move annotation tools and open corpus of sample machine-annotated rhetorical moves

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Alternative title	Are you being rhetorical? An open corpus of machine annotated rhetorical moves
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DOI	Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.18608/jla.2020.73.10
Author	Search for: Knight, Simon; Search for: Abel, Sophie; Search for: Shibani, Antonette; Search for: Goh, Yoong Kuan; Search for: Conijn, Rianne; Search for: Gibson, Andrew; Search for: Vajjala, Sowmya¹; Search for: Cotos, Elena; Search for: Sándor, Ágnes; Search for: Buckingham Shum, Simon
Name affiliation	National Research Council of Canada. Digital Technologies
Format	Text, Article
Journal title	Journal of Learning Analytics
ISSN	1929-7750
Volume	7
Issue	3
Pages	138–154
Subject	writing analytics; corpus analysis; rhetorical moves; open data
Abstract	Writing analytics has emerged as a sub-field of learning analytics, with applications including the provision of formative feedback to students in developing their writing capacities. Rhetorical markers in writing have become a key feature in this feedback, with a number of tools being developed across research and teaching contexts. However, there is no shared corpus of texts annotated by these tools, nor is it clear how the tool annotations compare. Thus, resources are scarce for comparing tools for both tool development and pedagogic purposes. In this paper, we conduct such a comparison and introduce a sample corpus of texts representative of the particular genres, a subset of which has been annotated using three rhetorical analysis tools (one of which has two versions). This paper aims to provide both a description of the tools and a shared dataset in order to support extensions of existing analyses and tool design in support of writing skill development. We intend the description of these tools, which share a focus on rhetorical structures, alongside the corpus, to be a preliminary step to enable further research, with regard to both tool development and tool interaction.
Publication date	2020-12-17
Date created	2021-01-05
Publisher	Society for Learning Analytics Research
Licence	Creative Commons License, Attribution - NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported(CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
Language	English
Peer reviewed	Yes
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