Datasets and Tools

Datasets


https://nlds.soe.ucsc.edu/iac
http://mpqa.cs.pitt.edu/corpora/mpqa_corpus/


"Identifying Controversial Issues and Their Sub-topics in News Articles" uses MPQA corpus for controversy detection in topics, not for evaluation, mostly considering all topics controversial 


opinion mining with deep recurrent nets
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~oirsoy/drnt.htm
http://people.cs.umass.edu/~vdang/ranklib.html


Wikipedia: 
1) List of Controversial topics:
	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_controversial_issues

2) Category of Controversial topics:
	 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_controversial_topics

Dataset on contoversial topics:
 	https://www.research.ibm.com/haifa/dept/vst/papers/2014_6_ACL_ArgumentationWorkshop_ibmClaimEvidenceDataPaper.pdf

Note: Paper says that the dataset is available on request. Sent an email to authors requesting the access to dataset.