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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Argument Mining |
| Editors | Ivan Habernal, Iryna Gurevych, Kevin Ashley, Clair Cardie, Nancy Green, Diane Litman, Georgios Petasis, Chris Reed, Noam Slonim, Vern Walker |
| Pages | 118-128 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| ISBN (electronic) | 9781945626845 |
| Publication status | Published - Sept 2017 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | EMNLP 2017 4th Workshop on Argument Mining, ArgMining 2017 - Copenhagen, Denmark Duration: 8 Sept 2017 → 8 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.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Science(all)
- Computational Theory and Mathematics
- Computer Science(all)
- Information Systems
- Computer Science(all)
- Computer Science Applications
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Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Argument Mining. ed. / Ivan Habernal; Iryna Gurevych; Kevin Ashley; Clair Cardie; Nancy Green; Diane Litman; Georgios Petasis; Chris Reed; Noam Slonim; Vern Walker. 2017. p. 118-128.
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