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| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 1, Long Papers |
| Pages | 176-187 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2017 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2017 - Valencia, Spain Duration: 3 Apr 2017 → 7 Apr 2017 |
Abstract
Research on computational argumentation faces the problem of how to automatically assess the quality of an argument or argumentation. While different quality dimensions have been approached in natural language processing, a common understanding of argumentation quality is still missing. This paper presents the first holistic work on computational argumentation quality in natural language. We comprehensively survey the diverse existing theories and approaches to assess logical, rhetorical, and dialectical quality dimensions, and we derive a systematic taxonomy from these. In addition, we provide a corpus with 320 arguments, annotated for all 15 dimensions in the taxonomy. Our results establish a common ground for research on computational argumentation quality assessment.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Sciences(all)
- Linguistics and Language
- Arts and Humanities(all)
- Language and Linguistics
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Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 1, Long Papers. 2017. p. 176-187.
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T1 - Computational Argumentation Quality Assessment in Natural Language
AU - Wachsmuth, Henning
AU - Naderi, Nona
AU - Hou, Yufang
AU - Bilu, Yonatan
AU - Prabhakaran, Vinodkumar
AU - Thijm, Tim Alberdingk
AU - Hirst, Graeme
AU - Stein, Benno
N1 - Funding Information: We thank all attendees of Dagstuhl Seminar 15512, particularly the rest of the quality breakout group: Wolf-Tilo Balke, Ruty Rinott, and Christian Stab. Also, we acknowledge financial support of the Stanford University, the DFG, and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
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AB - Research on computational argumentation faces the problem of how to automatically assess the quality of an argument or argumentation. While different quality dimensions have been approached in natural language processing, a common understanding of argumentation quality is still missing. This paper presents the first holistic work on computational argumentation quality in natural language. We comprehensively survey the diverse existing theories and approaches to assess logical, rhetorical, and dialectical quality dimensions, and we derive a systematic taxonomy from these. In addition, we provide a corpus with 320 arguments, annotated for all 15 dimensions in the taxonomy. Our results establish a common ground for research on computational argumentation quality assessment.
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