This is the first version of the Persian RST corpus, a corpus of 150 journalistic texts annotated in the framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory [1]. The annotation was mainly based on the English RST Discourse Treebank [2] guideline [3]. The relations used in the corpus are the coarse-grained relations introduced in RST Discourse Treebank tagging guideline, which are Span, Joint, Elaboration, Same-Unit, Contrast, Explanation, Attribution, Cause, Background, Evaluation, Topic, Comment, Condition, Temporal, Summary, Enablement, Comparison, Topic, Change, Manner-Means. We have annotated the corpus using rstweb [4] and recommend you use this tool if you want to see RST trees graphically. The name of each file contains the source of the news; e.g. etemad001.rs3 was taken from Etemad newspaper. For more information about corpus articles, see corpus metadata, which provides information about the source, date, author and link of each article. This corpus is published under a CC-BY-NC license.
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