A selection of scripts, data structure docs, and metadata associated with corpus analysis of rhetorical moves. A description of the dataset, current and future analyses can be found in the Wiki.
To start analysing the dataset:
- Get the MySQL database structure and data scripts from the admin.
- Create a local copy of the database in MySQL using the database structure script.
- Load the data into your local database.
- Load the data from your local copy into your preferred program for analysis (see R/Python files for loading dataset into R/Python).
The data may be downloaded from
This repository is part of a published work at: Knight, Simon, Sophie Abel, Antonette Shibani, Goh Yoong Kuan, Rianne Conijn, Andrew Gibson, Sowmya Vajjala, Elena Cotos, Ágnes Sándor, and Simon Buckingham Shum. 2020. “Are You Being Rhetorical? A Description of Rhetorical Move Annotation Tools and Open Corpus of Sample Machine Annotated Rhetorical Moves.” Journal of Learning Analytics.