We collect and release a corpus of over 9,000 threads comprising over 100,000 comments manually annotated via paid crowdsourcing with discourse acts and randomly sampled from the site Reddit.

Supported Tasks and Leaderboards

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Languages

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Dataset Structure

Data Instances

default

Size of downloaded dataset files: 4.63 MB
Size of the generated dataset: 45.45 MB
Total amount of disk used: 50.08 MB

An example of 'train' looks as follows.

{
    "annotations": {
        "annotator": ["fc96a15ab87f02dd1998ff55a64f6478", "e9e4b3ab355135fa954badcc06bfccc6", "31ac59c1734c1547d4d0723ff254c247"],
        "link_to_post": ["", "", ""],
        "main_type": ["elaboration", "elaboration", "elaboration"]
    },
    "id_post": "t1_c9b30i1",
    "in_reply_to": "t1_c9b2nyd",
    "is_first_post": false,
    "is_self_post": true,
    "majority_link": "t1_c9b2nyd",
    "majority_type": "elaboration",
    "post_depth": 2,
    "subreddit": "100movies365days",
    "title": "DTX120: #87 - Nashville",
    "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/100movies365days/comments/1bx6qw/dtx120_87_nashville/"
}

Data Fields

The data fields are the same among all splits.

default

title: a string feature.
is_self_post: a bool feature.
subreddit: a string feature.
url: a string feature.
majority_link: a string feature.
is_first_post: a bool feature.
majority_type: a string feature.
id_post: a string feature.
post_depth: a int32 feature.
in_reply_to: a string feature.
annotations: a dictionary feature containing:
- annotator: a string feature.
- link_to_post: a string feature.
- main_type: a string feature.

Data Splits

name	train
default	116357

Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

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Source Data

Initial Data Collection and Normalization

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Who are the source language producers?

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Annotations

Considerations for Using the Data

Social Impact of Dataset

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Discussion of Biases

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Other Known Limitations

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Additional Information

Dataset Curators

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Citation Information

@inproceedings{coarsediscourse, title={Characterizing Online Discussion Using Coarse Discourse Sequences}, author={Zhang, Amy X. and Culbertson, Bryan and Paritosh, Praveen}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media}, series={ICWSM '17}, year={2017}, location = {Montreal, Canada} }