Combining Deep Learning and Argumentative Reasoning for the Analysis of Social Media Textual Content Using Small Data Sets

Oana Cocarascu, Francesca Toni


Abstract
The use of social media has become a regular habit for many and has changed the way people interact with each other. In this article, we focus on analyzing whether news headlines support tweets and whether reviews are deceptive by analyzing the interaction or the influence that these texts have on the others, thus exploiting contextual information. Concretely, we define a deep learning method for relation–based argument mining to extract argumentative relations of attack and support. We then use this method for determining whether news articles support tweets, a useful task in fact-checking settings, where determining agreement toward a statement is a useful step toward determining its truthfulness. Furthermore, we use our method for extracting bipolar argumentation frameworks from reviews to help detect whether they are deceptive. We show experimentally that our method performs well in both settings. In particular, in the case of deception detection, our method contributes a novel argumentative feature that, when used in combination with other features in standard supervised classifiers, outperforms the latter even on small data sets.
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J18-4011
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Computational Linguistics, Volume 44, Issue 4 - December 2018
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December
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2018
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Cambridge, MA
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CL
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MIT Press
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833–858
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https://aclanthology.org/J18-4011
DOI:
10.1162/coli_a_00338
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Oana Cocarascu and Francesca Toni. 2018. Combining Deep Learning and Argumentative Reasoning for the Analysis of Social Media Textual Content Using Small Data Sets. Computational Linguistics, 44(4):833–858.
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Combining Deep Learning and Argumentative Reasoning for the Analysis of Social Media Textual Content Using Small Data Sets (Cocarascu & Toni, CL 2018)
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