A School Student Essay Corpus for Analyzing Interactions of Argumentative Structure and Quality
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| author | Stahl, Maja Michel, Nadine Kilsbach, Sebastian Schmidtke, Julian Rezat, Sara Wachsmuth, Henning |
| author_facet | Stahl, Maja Michel, Nadine Kilsbach, Sebastian Schmidtke, Julian Rezat, Sara Wachsmuth, Henning |
| contents | Learning argumentative writing is challenging. Besides writing fundamentals such as syntax and grammar, learners must select and arrange argument components meaningfully to create high-quality essays. To support argumentative writing computationally, one step is to mine the argumentative structure. When combined with automatic essay scoring, interactions of the argumentative structure and quality scores can be exploited for comprehensive writing support. Although studies have shown the usefulness of using information about the argumentative structure for essay scoring, no argument mining corpus with ground-truth essay quality annotations has been published yet. Moreover, none of the existing corpora contain essays written by school students specifically. To fill this research gap, we present a German corpus of 1,320 essays from school students of two age groups. Each essay has been manually annotated for argumentative structure and quality on multiple levels of granularity. We propose baseline approaches to argument mining and essay scoring, and we analyze interactions between both tasks, thereby laying the ground for quality-oriented argumentative writing support. |
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| spellingShingle | A School Student Essay Corpus for Analyzing Interactions of Argumentative Structure and Quality Stahl, Maja Michel, Nadine Kilsbach, Sebastian Schmidtke, Julian Rezat, Sara Wachsmuth, Henning Computation and Language Learning argumentative writing is challenging. Besides writing fundamentals such as syntax and grammar, learners must select and arrange argument components meaningfully to create high-quality essays. To support argumentative writing computationally, one step is to mine the argumentative structure. When combined with automatic essay scoring, interactions of the argumentative structure and quality scores can be exploited for comprehensive writing support. Although studies have shown the usefulness of using information about the argumentative structure for essay scoring, no argument mining corpus with ground-truth essay quality annotations has been published yet. Moreover, none of the existing corpora contain essays written by school students specifically. To fill this research gap, we present a German corpus of 1,320 essays from school students of two age groups. Each essay has been manually annotated for argumentative structure and quality on multiple levels of granularity. We propose baseline approaches to argument mining and essay scoring, and we analyze interactions between both tasks, thereby laying the ground for quality-oriented argumentative writing support. |
| title | A School Student Essay Corpus for Analyzing Interactions of Argumentative Structure and Quality |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02529 |