Unit Segmentation of Argumentative Texts

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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Titel des SammelwerksProceedings of the 4th Workshop on Argument Mining
Herausgeber/-innenIvan Habernal, Iryna Gurevych, Kevin Ashley, Clair Cardie, Nancy Green, Diane Litman, Georgios Petasis, Chris Reed, Noam Slonim, Vern Walker
Seiten118-128
Seitenumfang11
ISBN (elektronisch)9781945626845
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Sept. 2017
Extern publiziertJa
VeranstaltungEMNLP 2017 4th Workshop on Argument Mining - Copenhagen, Dänemark
Dauer: 8 Sept. 20178 Sept. 2017

Abstract

The segmentation of an argumentative text into argument units and their nonargumentative counterparts is the first step in identifying the argumentative structure of the text. Despite its importance for argument mining, unit segmentation has been approached only sporadically so far. This paper studies the major parameters of unit segmentation systematically. We explore the effectiveness of various features, when capturing words separately, along with their neighbors, or even along with the entire text. Each such context is reflected by one machine learning model that we evaluate within and across three domains of texts. Among the models, our new deep learning approach capturing the entire text turns out best within all domains, with an F-score of up to 88.54. While structural features generalize best across domains, the domain transfer remains hard, which points to major challenges of unit segmentation.

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Unit Segmentation of Argumentative Texts. / Ajjour, Yamen; Chen, Wei Fan; Kiesel, Johannes et al.
Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Argument Mining. Hrsg. / Ivan Habernal; Iryna Gurevych; Kevin Ashley; Clair Cardie; Nancy Green; Diane Litman; Georgios Petasis; Chris Reed; Noam Slonim; Vern Walker. 2017. S. 118-128.

Publikation: Beitrag in Buch/Bericht/Sammelwerk/KonferenzbandAufsatz in KonferenzbandForschungPeer-Review

Ajjour, Y, Chen, WF, Kiesel, J, Wachsmuth, H & Stein, B 2017, Unit Segmentation of Argumentative Texts. in I Habernal, I Gurevych, K Ashley, C Cardie, N Green, D Litman, G Petasis, C Reed, N Slonim & V Walker (Hrsg.), Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Argument Mining. S. 118-128, EMNLP 2017 4th Workshop on Argument Mining, Copenhagen, Dänemark, 8 Sept. 2017. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W17-5115
Ajjour, Y., Chen, W. F., Kiesel, J., Wachsmuth, H., & Stein, B. (2017). Unit Segmentation of Argumentative Texts. In I. Habernal, I. Gurevych, K. Ashley, C. Cardie, N. Green, D. Litman, G. Petasis, C. Reed, N. Slonim, & V. Walker (Hrsg.), Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Argument Mining (S. 118-128) https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W17-5115
Ajjour Y, Chen WF, Kiesel J, Wachsmuth H, Stein B. Unit Segmentation of Argumentative Texts. in Habernal I, Gurevych I, Ashley K, Cardie C, Green N, Litman D, Petasis G, Reed C, Slonim N, Walker V, Hrsg., Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Argument Mining. 2017. S. 118-128 doi: 10.18653/v1/W17-5115
Ajjour, Yamen ; Chen, Wei Fan ; Kiesel, Johannes et al. / Unit Segmentation of Argumentative Texts. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Argument Mining. Hrsg. / Ivan Habernal ; Iryna Gurevych ; Kevin Ashley ; Clair Cardie ; Nancy Green ; Diane Litman ; Georgios Petasis ; Chris Reed ; Noam Slonim ; Vern Walker. 2017. S. 118-128
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