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
