Michael Fromm


2021

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Active Learning for Argument Strength Estimation
Nataliia Kees | Michael Fromm | Evgeniy Faerman | Thomas Seidl
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP

High-quality arguments are an essential part of decision-making. Automatically predicting the quality of an argument is a complex task that recently got much attention in argument mining. However, the annotation effort for this task is exceptionally high. Therefore, we test uncertainty-based active learning (AL) methods on two popular argument-strength data sets to estimate whether sample-efficient learning can be enabled. Our extensive empirical evaluation shows that uncertainty-based acquisition functions can not surpass the accuracy reached with the random acquisition on these data sets.