@inproceedings{putra-etal-2021-multi,
title = "Multi-task and Multi-corpora Training Strategies to Enhance Argumentative Sentence Linking Performance",
author = "Putra, Jan Wira Gotama and
Teufel, Simone and
Tokunaga, Takenobu",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Argument Mining",
month = nov,
year = "2021",
address = "Punta Cana, Dominican Republic",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.argmining-1.2",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.argmining-1.2",
pages = "12--23",
abstract = "Argumentative structure prediction aims to establish links between textual units and label the relationship between them, forming a structured representation for a given input text. The former task, linking, has been identified by earlier works as particularly challenging, as it requires finding the most appropriate structure out of a very large search space of possible link combinations. In this paper, we improve a state-of-the-art linking model by using multi-task and multi-corpora training strategies. Our auxiliary tasks help the model to learn the role of each sentence in the argumentative structure. Combining multi-corpora training with a selective sampling strategy increases the training data size while ensuring that the model still learns the desired target distribution well. Experiments on essays written by English-as-a-foreign-language learners show that both strategies significantly improve the model{'}s performance; for instance, we observe a 15.8{\%} increase in the F1-macro for individual link predictions.",
}
Markdown (Informal)
[Multi-task and Multi-corpora Training Strategies to Enhance Argumentative Sentence Linking Performance](https://aclanthology.org/2021.argmining-1.2) (Putra et al., ArgMining 2021)
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