The Basque RST Treebank

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Corpus acronym: 
Basque RST-TB
Developer: 
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
Authors: 
Mikel Iruskieta, Oier Lopez de Lacalle, Esther Miranda, Kike Fernandez, Maxux Aranzabe, Itziar Gonzalez, Mikel Lersundi, Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza
Contact person(s): 
Mikel Iruskieta
Contact person e-mail(s): 
/mikel.iruskieta%40ehu.eus
Project URL: 
http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/diskurtsoa/en/
Availability: 
publicly available at http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/diskurtsoa/en/
Languages covered: 
Basque
Available translations: 
The most of the text is available (upon request) in Spanish and English. There is also a part available in French.
Corpus size (documents): 
84
Corpus size (sentences): 
1,050 (rhetorical relations)
Corpus size (tokens): 
N/A
Mode: 
written
Genre: 
science
books reviews
Genre (detailed): 
scientific abstracs, books reviews
Register: 
unspecified
Register (2): 
unspecified
Text type: 
descriptive
argumentative
Years of the data origin: 
2008-2013
Document structure: 
headings, paragraph boundaries
Unit of segmentation used: 
N/A
Tools for annotation: 
RSTTool (http://www.wagsoft.com/RSTTool/), Rhetorical Database (http://www.icmc.usp.br/~taspardo/)
Tools for browsing: 
Web-based tools (http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/diskurtsoa/en/)
Tools for querying: 
web-based tools (http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/diskurtsoa/en/)
Types of DSDs annotated: 
intra- and inter-sentential, RST style annotation, relation signalling annotation
Number of DSD instances: 
1,050
Method of annotation: 
manual annotation
Style/theory of annotation: 
RST style
Annotation manual URL: 
http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/~jibquirm/tesia/tesi_txostena.pdf
Format: 
txt, rs3, xml, kaf, rhetdb, jpg
Version number, release date: 

september 2013

Previous versions and their release dates: 

N/A

Pointers to related corpora: 

N/A

Citation (text format): 

Iruskieta, M.; Aranzabe, M.J.; Diaz de Ilarraza, A.; Gonzalez, I.; Lersundi, M.; Lopez de la Calle, O. 2013. The RST Basque TreeBank: an online search interface to check rhetorical relations. Paper presented at the 4th Workshop ''RST and Discourse Studies'', Brasil, October 21-23.

Citation (bibTeX format): 

@InProceedings{author = { M. Iruskieta and M. Aranzabe and A. Diaz de Ilarraza and I. Gonzalez and I. Lersundi and O. Lopez de Lacalle },title = {The RST Basque TreeBank: an online search interface to check rhetorical relations},booktitle = {4th​ Workshop RST and Discourse Studies, 40-49, Sociedad Brasileira de Computacao, Fortaleza, CE, Brasil. October 20-24 (http://encontrorst2013.wix.com/encontro-rst-2013)​"},year = {2013}}

Notes: 

N/A

Further info about the discourse relations: 
information about arguments of each relation is available
senses/semantic labels are annotated for the relations
Other annotation layers: 
sentence morphosyntax, parse structure