Assessing Writing Oct 2022 Open Access

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

Scott A. Crossley Vanderbilt University ; Perpetual Baffour Vanderbilt University ; Yu Tian ; Aigner Picou Vanderbilt University ; Meg Benner Vanderbilt University ; Ulrich Boser Vanderbilt University

Abstract

This paper introduces the Persuasive Essays for Rating, Selecting, and Understanding Argumentative 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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Assessing Writing
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2022-10-01
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10.1016/j.asw.2022.100667
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