# rus.rst.rrt

### Russian RST Treebank

## Introduction

Russian RST Treebank is a Russian corpus with annotations for Discourse Structure, annotated manually with discourse relations. This treebank was annotated manually with discourse structure in the Rhetorical Structure Theory  framework (RST, Mann & Thompson 1988) using [rstWeb](https://corpling.uis.georgetown.edu/rstweb/info/). 

Russian RST Treebank 1.0 consisted of 79 news articles and 99 research articles (in the fields of computer science and on linguistics). The latest data includes an additional 104 blog documents, and 50 more news documents for a total of 332 documents.

This study was funded by RFBR according to the research project ¹ 17-29-07033.

## Feedback

For further questions or inquiries about this dataset, you can contact:

Dina Pisarevskaya dinabpr@gmail.com
Maria Kobozeva marya.kobozeva@gmail.com
Svetlana Toldova toldova@yandex.ru

## Citation Info

If you use this dataset, please cite the publication of the data:

Pisarevskaya D. et al. (2017), Towards building a discourse-annotated corpus of Russian. In Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies: Proc. of the Int. Conf." Dialogue, Vol. 1, pp. 194-204.
```
@inproceedings{PisarevskayaEtAl2017,
author = {Pisarevskaya, Dina and Ananyeva, Margarita and Kobozeva, Maria and Nasedkin, A. and Nikiforova, S. and Pavlova, I. and Shelepov, A.},
title = {Towards building a Discourse-annotated corpus of Russian},
year = {2017},
month = {06},
volum = {1}, 
pages = {194-204},
booktitle = {Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies: 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies "Dialogue"},
}
```


Toldova, S., Pisarevskaya, D., Ananyeva, M., Kobozeva, M., Nasedkin, A., Nikiforova, S., ... & Shelepov, A. (2017). Rhetorical relations markers in Russian RST Treebank. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Recent Advances in RST and Related Formalisms, pp. 29-33.
```
@inproceedings{toldova-etal-2017-rhetorical,
    title = "Rhetorical relations markers in {R}ussian {RST} Treebank",
    author = "Toldova, Svetlana  and
      Pisarevskaya, Dina  and
      Ananyeva, Margarita  and
      Kobozeva, Maria  and
      Nasedkin, Alexander  and
      Nikiforova, Sofia  and
      Pavlova, Irina  and
      Shelepov, Alexey",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Recent Advances in {RST} and Related Formalisms",
    month = sep,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Santiago de Compostela, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/W17-3604",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-3604",
    pages = "29--33",
    ISBN = "978-1-945626-78-4",
}
```



## License

Russian RST Treebank 1.0 is publicly available under the Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.

References:
[Mann & Thompson 1988] Mann, William C. and Sandra A. Thompson (1988). "Rhetorical Structure Theory: Toward a functional theory of text organization". In: Text 8 (3), pp.243-281.

## DISRPT 2023 Shared Task Information

This dataset has been expanded with the latest files bringing the total up from 178 documents in DISRPT 2019 to 322 in DISRPT 2021. Since the Russian RST Treebank does not contain gold tokenization and sentence splitting, data was automatically tokenized and parsed using Stanza's Syntagrus model. As a result sentence splits in conll files are not always correct. 
Additionally, some scientific texts contain portions in other languages, such as bibliographical references in English, brief summaries or keywords not in Russian.

Note also that some regions of text in the Russian RST Treebank are not internally segmented despite containing multiple sentences, such as bibliographies. This dataset contains discontinuous discourse units (split 'same-unit').