Argue with Me Tersely: Towards Sentence-Level Counter-Argument Generation
Jiayu Lin, Rong Ye, Meng Han, Qi Zhang, Ruofei Lai, Xinyu Zhang, Zhao Cao, Xuanjing Huang, Zhongyu Wei
Abstract
Counter-argument generation—a captivating area in computational linguistics—seeks to craft statements that offer opposing views. While most research has ventured into paragraph-level generation, sentence-level counter-argument generation beckons with its unique constraints and brevity-focused challenges. Furthermore, the diverse nature of counter-arguments poses challenges for evaluating model performance solely based on n-gram-based metrics. In this paper, we present the ArgTersely benchmark for sentence-level counter-argument generation, drawing from a manually annotated dataset from the ChangeMyView debate forum. We also propose Arg-LlaMA for generating high-quality counter-argument. For better evaluation, we trained a BERT-based evaluator Arg-Judge with human preference data. We conducted comparative experiments involving various baselines such as LlaMA, Alpaca, GPT-3, and others. The results show the competitiveness of our proposed framework and evaluator in counter-argument generation tasks. Code and data are available at https://github.com/amazingljy1206/ArgTersely.- Anthology ID:
- 2023.emnlp-main.1039
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2023
- Address:
- Singapore
- Editors:
- Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, Kalika Bali
- Venue:
- EMNLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 16705–16720
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/icon-24-ingestion/2023.emnlp-main.1039/
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.1039
- Cite (ACL):
- Jiayu Lin, Rong Ye, Meng Han, Qi Zhang, Ruofei Lai, Xinyu Zhang, Zhao Cao, Xuanjing Huang, and Zhongyu Wei. 2023. Argue with Me Tersely: Towards Sentence-Level Counter-Argument Generation. In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 16705–16720, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Argue with Me Tersely: Towards Sentence-Level Counter-Argument Generation (Lin et al., EMNLP 2023)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/icon-24-ingestion/2023.emnlp-main.1039.pdf