# _VivesDebate_: A New Annotated Multilingual Corpus of Argumentation in a Debate Tournament
## 6 Conclusions
Furthermore, the corpus is available in its original version in Catalan, and in machine-translated versions to Spanish and English languages, leaving an open door to multilingual computational argumentation research. Even though the _VivesDebate_ corpus provides significant improvements over existing resources for computational argumentation research, it has its own limitations. The debates contained in the corpus belong to a unique tournament, which means that every annotated debate will have the same topic in common. This feature is directly related to the observable language distribution, which will be biased by the _\"Should surrogacy be legalised?\"_ topic. However, since our corpus is aimed at computational argumentation research rather than language modelling, this should not be an important issue. Furthermore, this data bias can be easily amended with a topic extension of the _VivesDebate_ corpus. The other main limitations of the corpus are the Spanish and English machine-translated versions, which may not be as linguistically correct as the original version in Catalan. As future work, we plan to overcome some of these limitations and to deepen the argumentative analysis and annotation of the corpus. First, we plan to improve the Spanish and English machine-translated versions of the _VivesDebate_ corpus with a professional translation. We also want to improve the argumentative annotations of the corpus by deepening the logical and rational aspects of argumentation. In its current form, it is possible to perform a general structural analysis of the arguments. With the identification and annotation of stereotyped patterns of human reasoning (i.e., argumentation schemes [3]), it will be possible to bring the automatic detection and analysis of arguments to a deeper level. However, this is a complex task, and it has only been superficially researched in the literature. Finally, we are also exploring the possibility of organising a new shared task focused on the argumentative analysis of natural language inputs. Conceptualization, R.R.-D., S.H. and A.G.-F.; Data curation, M.N. ; Formal analysis, R.R.-D.; Funding acquisition, A.G.-F.; Methodology, M.N. and M.T. ; Project administration, M.T. and A.G.-F.; Resources, R.R.-D., M.N., M.T., S.H. and A.G.-F.; Supervision, S.H. and A.G.-F.; Validation, M.N. and M.T. ; Writing--original draft, R.R.-D. and M.T. ; Writing--review & editing, R.R.-D., M.N., M.T., S.H. and A.G.-F. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. **Funding:** This research was funded by the Spanish Government project PID2020-113416 RB-I00; the Valencian Government project PROMETEO/2018/002; the MISMIS-Language project (PGC2018-096212-B-C33) funded by Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades; and the CLiC Research Group (2017 SGR341) funded by Generalitat de Catalunya. **Institutional Review Board Statement:** Not applicable. **Infrared Consent Statement:** Not applicable. **Data Availability Statement:** The _VivesDebate_ corpus is freely available to download from Zenodo ([[https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5145656](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5145656)]([https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5145656](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5145656)), accessed on 2 August 2021) under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). **Acknowledgments:** We gratefully acknowledge the _Xarxa Vives d'Universitats_ for organising the debate tournaments, making publicly available the videos, and sharing the evaluations with the research community. **Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.