Abstract
For analyzing argumentative text, we propose to study the ‘depth’ of argumentation as one important component, which we distinguish from argument quality. In a pilot study with German newspaper commentary texts, we asked students to rate the degree of argumentativeness, and then looked for correlations with features of the annotated argumentation structure and the rhetorical structure (in terms of RST). The results indicate that the human judgements correlate with our operationalization of depth and with certain structural features of RST trees.- Anthology ID:
- C16-1312
- Volume:
- Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2016
- Address:
- Osaka, Japan
- Editors:
- Yuji Matsumoto, Rashmi Prasad
- Venue:
- COLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3308–3317
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/C16-1312
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Manfred Stede. 2016. Towards assessing depth of argumentation. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, pages 3308–3317, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
- Cite (Informal):
- Towards assessing depth of argumentation (Stede, COLING 2016)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-2/C16-1312.pdf