Key Point Analysis via Contrastive Learning and Extractive Argument Summarization

Milad Alshomary, Timon Gurcke, Shahbaz Syed, Philipp Heinisch, Maximilian Spliethöver, Philipp Cimiano, Martin Potthast, Henning Wachsmuth


Abstract
Key point analysis is the task of extracting a set of concise and high-level statements from a given collection of arguments, representing the gist of these arguments. This paper presents our proposed approach to the Key Point Analysis Shared Task, colocated with the 8th Workshop on Argument Mining. The approach integrates two complementary components. One component employs contrastive learning via a siamese neural network for matching arguments to key points; the other is a graph-based extractive summarization model for generating key points. In both automatic and manual evaluation, our approach was ranked best among all submissions to the shared task.
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2021.argmining-1.19
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Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Argument Mining
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November
Year:
2021
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Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
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Khalid Al-Khatib, Yufang Hou, Manfred Stede
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ArgMining
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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184–189
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.argmining-1.19
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.argmining-1.19
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Milad Alshomary, Timon Gurcke, Shahbaz Syed, Philipp Heinisch, Maximilian Spliethöver, Philipp Cimiano, Martin Potthast, and Henning Wachsmuth. 2021. Key Point Analysis via Contrastive Learning and Extractive Argument Summarization. In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Argument Mining, pages 184–189, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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