Abstract
In this paper we present a new unsupervised approach, “Attraction to Topics” – A2T , for the detection of argumentative units, a sub-task of argument mining. Motivated by the importance of topic identification in manual annotation, we examine whether topic modeling can be used for performing unsupervised detection of argumentative sentences, and to what extend topic modeling can be used to classify sentences as claims and premises. Preliminary evaluation results suggest that topic information can be successfully used for the detection of argumentative sentences, at least for corpora used for evaluation. Our approach has been evaluated on two English corpora, the first of which contains 90 persuasive essays, while the second is a collection of 340 documents from user generated content.- Anthology ID:
- W17-5113
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Argument Mining
- Month:
- September
- Year:
- 2017
- Address:
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Editors:
- Ivan Habernal, Iryna Gurevych, Kevin Ashley, Claire Cardie, Nancy Green, Diane Litman, Georgios Petasis, Chris Reed, Noam Slonim, Vern Walker
- Venue:
- ArgMining
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 97–107
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/build-pipeline-with-new-library/W17-5113/
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W17-5113
- Cite (ACL):
- Alfio Ferrara, Stefano Montanelli, and Georgios Petasis. 2017. Unsupervised Detection of Argumentative Units though Topic Modeling Techniques. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Argument Mining, pages 97–107, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Unsupervised Detection of Argumentative Units though Topic Modeling Techniques (Ferrara et al., ArgMining 2017)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/build-pipeline-with-new-library/W17-5113.pdf