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  <Title>An annotation scheme for discourse-level argumentation in research articles</Title>
  <Section position="9" start_page="115" end_page="115" type="concl">
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5 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have introduced an annotation scheme for research articles which marks the aims of the paper in relation to past literature. We have argued that this scheme is useful for building better abstracts, and have conducted some experiments which show that the annotation scheme can be learned by trained annotators and subsequently applied in a consistent way. Because the scheme is reliable, hand-annotated data can be used to train a system which applies the scheme automatically to unseen text.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The novel aspects of our scheme are that it applies to different kinds of scientific research articles, because it relies on the form and meaning of argumentative aspects found in the text type rather than on contents or physical format. As such, it should be independent of article length and article discipline. In the future, we plan to show this by applying our scheme to journal and conference articles from a range of disciplines.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Practical reasons have kept us from using journal articles as data so far (namely the difficulty of corpus collection and the increased length and subsequent time effort of human experiments), but we are particularly interested in them as they can be expected to be of higher quality. As the basic argumentation is the same as in conference articles, our scheme should be applicable to journal articles at least as consistently as to the papers in our current collection.</Paragraph>
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