Essay Argument Strength Dataset

This page is a distribution site of essay data for the task of Essay Argument Strength Scoring. Data available on this page include annotated argument strength scores for 1000 essays from the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLE).

The problem of Essay Argument Strength Scoring for which this dataset is intended is described in:

Isaac Persing and Vincent Ng, Modeling Argument Strength in Student Essays, Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2015.

Essay Argument Strength Dataset

Essay Argument Strength Scores Includes argument strength scores for 1000 essays (one per line).

Cross Validation Folds Includes lists of the essays in each of the five folds used for cross validation in the experiments described in Modeling Argument Strength in Student Essays.

Coreference Features Includes a list of 19 coreference features used in the experiments described in Modeling Argument Strength in Student Essays.

Note that we only own the annotations on the ICLE essay dataset. The essays themselves must be purchased here.

The creation of this website is based upon work supported in part by National Science Foundation (NSF) Grants IIS-1147644 and IIS-1219142. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed above are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of NSF and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of any sponsoring institution, the U.S. government or any other entity.