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What makes a convincing argument? Empirical analysis and detecting attributes of convincingness in Web argumentation

Habernal, Ivan ; Gurevych, Iryna (2016)
What makes a convincing argument? Empirical analysis and detecting attributes of convincingness in Web argumentation.
Austin, Texas
Konferenzveröffentlichung, Bibliographie

Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract)

This article tackles a new challenging task in computational argumentation. Given a pair of two arguments to a certain controversial topic, we aim to directly assess qualitative properties of the arguments in order to explain why one argument is more convincing than the other one. We approach this task in a fully empirical manner by annotating 26k explanations written in natural language. These explanations describe convincingness of arguments in the given argument pair, such as their strengths or flaws. We create a new crowd-sourced corpus containing 9,111 argument pairs, multi-labeled with 17 classes, which was cleaned and curated by employing several strict quality measures. We propose two tasks on this data set, namely (1) predicting the full label distribution and (2) classifying types of flaws in less convincing arguments. Our experiments with feature-rich SVM learners and Bidirectional LSTM neural networks with convolution and attention mechanism reveal that such a novel fine-grained analysis of Web argument convincingness is a very challenging task. We release the new UKPConvArg2 corpus and software under permissive licenses to the research community.

Typ des Eintrags: Konferenzveröffentlichung
Erschienen: 2016
Autor(en): Habernal, Ivan ; Gurevych, Iryna
Art des Eintrags: Bibliographie
Titel: What makes a convincing argument? Empirical analysis and detecting attributes of convincingness in Web argumentation
Sprache: Englisch
Publikationsjahr: November 2016
Verlag: Association for Computational Linguistics
Buchtitel: Proceedings of the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
Veranstaltungsort: Austin, Texas
URL / URN: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D16-1129
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Kurzbeschreibung (Abstract):

This article tackles a new challenging task in computational argumentation. Given a pair of two arguments to a certain controversial topic, we aim to directly assess qualitative properties of the arguments in order to explain why one argument is more convincing than the other one. We approach this task in a fully empirical manner by annotating 26k explanations written in natural language. These explanations describe convincingness of arguments in the given argument pair, such as their strengths or flaws. We create a new crowd-sourced corpus containing 9,111 argument pairs, multi-labeled with 17 classes, which was cleaned and curated by employing several strict quality measures. We propose two tasks on this data set, namely (1) predicting the full label distribution and (2) classifying types of flaws in less convincing arguments. Our experiments with feature-rich SVM learners and Bidirectional LSTM neural networks with convolution and attention mechanism reveal that such a novel fine-grained analysis of Web argument convincingness is a very challenging task. We release the new UKPConvArg2 corpus and software under permissive licenses to the research community.

Freie Schlagworte: UKP_a_ArMin;UKP_p_ArguAna
ID-Nummer: TUD-CS-2016-0180
Fachbereich(e)/-gebiet(e): 20 Fachbereich Informatik
20 Fachbereich Informatik > Ubiquitäre Wissensverarbeitung
DFG-Graduiertenkollegs
DFG-Graduiertenkollegs > Graduiertenkolleg 1994 Adaptive Informationsaufbereitung aus heterogenen Quellen
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Letzte Änderung: 24 Jan 2020 12:03
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