A corpus of general and specific sentences from news
Annie Louis, Ani Nenkova · 2012
We present a corpus of sentences from news articles that are annotated as general or specific.We employed annotators on Amazon Mechanical Turk to mark sentences from three kinds of news articles-reports on events, finance news and science journalism.We introduce the resulting corpus, with focus on annotator agreement, proportion of general/specific sentences in the articles and results for automatic classification of the two sentence types.