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The Moral Debater: A Study on the Computational Generation of Morally Framed Arguments

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Volume 1
Subtitle of host publicationLong Papers
EditorsSmaranda Muresan, Preslav Nakov, Aline Villavicencio
Pages8782 - 8797
Number of pages16
ISBN (electronic)9781955917216
Publication statusPublished - May 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2022 - Dublin, Ireland
Duration: 22 May 202227 May 2022

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NameProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Volume1
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.

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The Moral Debater: A Study on the Computational Generation of Morally Framed Arguments. / Alshomary, Milad; El Baff, Roxanne; Gurcke, Timon et al.
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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Alshomary, M, El Baff, R, Gurcke, T & Wachsmuth, H 2022, The Moral Debater: A Study on the Computational Generation of Morally Framed Arguments. in S Muresan, P Nakov & A Villavicencio (eds), Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Volume 1: Long Papers. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, vol. 1, pp. 8782 - 8797, 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2022, Dublin, Ireland, 22 May 2022. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2203.14563, https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.601
Alshomary, M., El Baff, R., Gurcke, T., & Wachsmuth, H. (2022). The Moral Debater: A Study on the Computational Generation of Morally Framed Arguments. In S. Muresan, P. Nakov, & A. Villavicencio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Volume 1: Long Papers (pp. 8782 - 8797). (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Vol. 1). https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2203.14563, https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.601
Alshomary M, El Baff R, Gurcke T, Wachsmuth H. The Moral Debater: A Study on the Computational Generation of Morally Framed Arguments. In Muresan S, Nakov P, Villavicencio A, editors, Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Volume 1: Long Papers. 2022. p. 8782 - 8797. (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics). doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2203.14563, 10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.601
Alshomary, Milad ; El Baff, Roxanne ; Gurcke, Timon et al. / The Moral Debater : A Study on the Computational Generation of Morally Framed Arguments. Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Volume 1: Long Papers. editor / Smaranda Muresan ; Preslav Nakov ; Aline Villavicencio. 2022. pp. 8782 - 8797 (Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics).
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