Reason Identification and Classification Dataset

This page is a distribution site of the dataset for the task of Reason Identification and Classification. Data available on this page have been collected from a popular online debate platform called CreateDebate.

The problem of Reason Identification and Classification for which this dataset is intended is described in:

Kazi Saidul Hasan and Vincent Ng, Why are You Taking this Stance? Identifying and Classifying Reasons in Ideological Debates, Proceedings of the 2014 Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-14), 2014.

Reason Identification and Classification Dataset

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.