Argumentation Synthesis following Rhetorical Strategies
Henning Wachsmuth, Manfred Stede, Roxanne El Baff, Khalid Al-Khatib, Maria Skeppstedt, Benno Stein
Abstract
Persuasion is rarely achieved through a loose set of arguments alone. Rather, an effective delivery of arguments follows a rhetorical strategy, combining logical reasoning with appeals to ethics and emotion. We argue that such a strategy means to select, arrange, and phrase a set of argumentative discourse units. In this paper, we model rhetorical strategies for the computational synthesis of effective argumentation. In a study, we let 26 experts synthesize argumentative texts with different strategies for 10 topics. We find that the experts agree in the selection significantly more when following the same strategy. While the texts notably vary for different strategies, especially their arrangement remains stable. The results suggest that our model enables a strategical synthesis.- Anthology ID:
- C18-1318
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
- Month:
- August
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- Editors:
- Emily M. Bender, Leon Derczynski, Pierre Isabelle
- Venue:
- COLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3753–3765
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/C18-1318
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Henning Wachsmuth, Manfred Stede, Roxanne El Baff, Khalid Al-Khatib, Maria Skeppstedt, and Benno Stein. 2018. Argumentation Synthesis following Rhetorical Strategies. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 3753–3765, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Argumentation Synthesis following Rhetorical Strategies (Wachsmuth et al., COLING 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/add_acl24_videos/C18-1318.pdf