DiscAn - Towards a Discourse Annotation system for Dutch language corpora

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Corpus acronym: 
DiscAn
Developer: 
Utrecht University, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Authors: 
Ted Sanders, Kirsten Vis, Daan Broeder
Contact person(s): 
Ted Sanders
Contact person e-mail(s): 
t.j.m.sanders@uu.nl
Project URL: 
https://tla.mpi.nl/resources/discan-corpora/
Availability: 
Upon request via https://corpus1.mpi.nl/ds/asv/;jsessionid=F1F6F2667D5F9CE0B4C2135EF5100EB5?0&openpath=node:1704649
Languages covered: 
Dutch
Available translations: 
N/A
Corpus size (hours): 
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Corpus size (documents): 
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Corpus size (sentences): 
1383
Corpus size (tokens): 
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Corpus size (other): 
N/A
Mode: 
written
spoken
Genre: 
journalistic
fiction
interactional (social networks, sms, everyday conversation, etc.)
Genre (detailed): 
Newspaper articles, spoken conversation, chat texts, novel fragments
Register: 
casual
semi-formal
formal
Register (2): 
spontaneous
semi-spontaneous
non-spontaneous
Text type: 
narrative
expository
descriptive
Years of the data origin: 
1990-2005
Document structure: 
fragments or complete texts
Unit of segmentation used: 
N/A
Tools for annotation: 
N/A
Tools for browsing: 
ANNIS
Tools for querying: 
ANNIS
Types of DSDs annotated: 
Explicit and implicit coherence relations, inter- and intrasentential. Types of relations: causal, additive, temporal
Number of DSD instances: 
1383 (more are in process)
Method of annotation: 
manual annotation
Style/theory of annotation: 
Based on Cognitive theory of Coherence Relations (Sanders, Spooren & Noordman, 1992, 1993)
Format: 
XML, CMDI
Version number, release date: 

2013

Previous versions and their release dates: 

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Pointers to related corpora: 

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Citation (text format): 

Sanders, T.J.M., Vis, K. & Broeder, D. (2012). Project notes of CLARIN project DiscAn: Towards a Discourse Annotation system for Dutch language corpora. Project notes. Utrecht University: Utrecht.

Notes: 

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Further info about the discourse relations: 
information about arguments of each relation is available