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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Long Papers) |
| Place of Publication | Melbourne |
| Pages | 2545-2555 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Publication status | Published - Jul 2018 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2018 - Melbourne, Australia Duration: 15 Jul 2018 → 20 Jul 2018 |
Abstract
This paper studies how the argumentation strategies of participants in deliberative discussions can be supported computationally. Our ultimate goal is to predict the best next deliberative move of each participant. In this paper, we present a model for deliberative discussions and we illustrate its operationalization. Previous models have been built manually based on a small set of discussions, resulting in a level of abstraction that is not suitable for move recommendation. In contrast, we derive our model statistically from several types of metadata that can be used for move description. Applied to six million discussions from Wikipedia talk pages, our approach results in a model with 13 categories along three dimensions: discourse acts, argumentative relations, and frames. On this basis, we automatically generate a corpus with about 200,000 turns, labeled for the 13 categories. We then operationalize the model with three supervised classifiers and provide evidence that the proposed categories can be predicted.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Science(all)
- Software
- Computer Science(all)
- Computational Theory and Mathematics
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Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Long Papers). Melbourne, 2018. p. 2545-2555.
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AU - Al-Khatib, Khalid
AU - Wachsmuth, Henning
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AU - Stein, Benno
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