Paper ID: 2302.12584

VivesDebate-Speech: A Corpus of Spoken Argumentation to Leverage Audio Features for Argument Mining

Ramon Ruiz-Dolz, Javier Iranzo-Sánchez

In this paper, we describe VivesDebate-Speech, a corpus of spoken argumentation created to leverage audio features for argument mining tasks. The creation of this corpus represents an important contribution to the intersection of speech processing and argument mining communities, and one of the most complete publicly available resources in this topic. Moreover, we have performed a set of first-of-their-kind experiments which show an improvement when integrating audio features into the argument mining pipeline. The provided results can be used as a baseline for future research.

Submitted: Feb 24, 2023