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Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Volume 1 |
Subtitle of host publication | Long Papers |
Editors | Smaranda Muresan, Preslav Nakov, Aline Villavicencio |
Pages | 8782 - 8797 |
Number of pages | 16 |
ISBN (electronic) | 9781955917216 |
Publication status | Published - May 2022 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2022 - Dublin, Ireland Duration: 22 May 2022 → 27 May 2022 |
Publication series
Name | Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics |
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Volume | 1 |
ISSN (Print) | 0736-587X |
Abstract
An audience's prior beliefs and morals are strong indicators of how likely they will be affected by a given argument. Utilizing such knowledge can help focus on shared values to bring disagreeing parties towards agreement. In argumentation technology, however, this is barely exploited so far. This paper studies the feasibility of automatically generating morally framed arguments as well as their effect on different audiences. Following the moral foundation theory, we propose a system that effectively generates arguments focusing on different morals. In an in-depth user study, we ask liberals and conservatives to evaluate the impact of these arguments. Our results suggest that, particularly when prior beliefs are challenged, an audience becomes more affected by morally framed arguments.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Science(all)
- Computer Science Applications
- Social Sciences(all)
- Linguistics and Language
- Arts and Humanities(all)
- Language and Linguistics
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Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Volume 1: Long Papers. ed. / Smaranda Muresan; Preslav Nakov; Aline Villavicencio. 2022. p. 8782 - 8797 (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Vol. 1).
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