ITACA Corpus - Coherence in Italian Argumentative Essays v1.0

  Authors

Bienati, Arianna ; Frey, Jennifer-Carmen ; Zanasi, Lorenzo ; Stemle, Egon ; Brasolin, Paolo ; Vettori, Chiara

  Item identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12124/76

 Project URL

https://www.porta.eurac.edu/lci/itaca/

 Demo URL

https://commul.eurac.edu/annis/itaca

 Date issued

2024-02-28

 Type

corpus

 Size

635 texts

 Language(s)

Italian

 Description

The ITACA Corpus is a corpus of argumentative essays written in Italian by upper secondary school students from South Tyrol. It has been created with the aim to investigate and describe the students’ textual competences with a special focus on text coherence. The ITACA corpus consists of 635 texts collected during the school year 2021/2022 in schools with Italian as a language of instruction. The whole corpus has been automatically tokenized, lemmatized, and annotated for part-of-speech and dependency relations. A subset of 388 texts additionally contains annotations regarding textual features, such as punctuation, connectives, agreement, anaphora, argumentative structure, off-topics and contradictions. The corpus furthermore provides metadata regarding student’s age, gender, language background, reading and writing habits, their performance in a standardized language test as well as holistic and analytic coherence evaluations for each text.

 Publisher

Eurac Research

 Acknowledgement

Autonomous province of Südtirol/Alto Adige

Project code: x

Project name: ITACA - Coerenza nell’ITAliano Accademico

 Subject(s)

cohesion coherence L1 student writing argumentative essays Italian South Tyrol upper secondary school 12th grade

 Collection(s)

Eurac Research: Learner Language

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