This resource includes three datasets. Each dataset consists of pairs of snippets related to a topic and annotated as in agreement or disagreement.

The three datasets are:

1960 Elections Dataset : A collection of 350 pairs of snippets (5 blocks of 3 sentences each) by Nixon and Kennedy from the 1960 presidential campaign. Each pair is manually annotated with  agreement/disagreement relation, sentiment, and similarity of the solution proposed with respect of the debated topic

1960 Elections Extended Dataset : A collection of 1400 pairs of snippets (5 blocks of 3 sentences each) by Nixon and Kennedy from the 1960 presidential campaign. Each pair is annotated as in agreement or disagreement.

Debatepedia Dataset: A collection of 29,354 pairs of posts from Debatepedia discussions. Each pair is annotated as in agreement or disagreement.

These datasets are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

If you use these datasets, please cite the following paper, where you can find more details on how the snippets were created:

Stefano Menini and Sara Tonelli. Agreement and Disagreement: Comparison of points of view in the political domain. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2016), Osaka, Japan, 2016

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