A Model for Processing Illocutionary Structures and Argumentation in Debates

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2014)

Abstract

In this paper, we briefly present the objectives of Inference Anchoring Theory (IAT) and the formal structure which is proposed for dialogues. Then, we introduce our development corpus, and a computational model designed for the identification of discourse minimal units in the context of argumentation and the illocutionary force associated with each unit. We show the categories of resources which are needed and how they can be reused in different contexts.