Abstract
We investigate the problem of sentence-level supporting argument detection from relevant documents for user-specified claims. A dataset containing claims and associated citation articles is collected from online debate website idebate.org. We then manually label sentence-level supporting arguments from the documents along with their types as study, factual, opinion, or reasoning. We further characterize arguments of different types, and explore whether leveraging type information can facilitate the supporting arguments detection task. Experimental results show that LambdaMART (Burges, 2010) ranker that uses features informed by argument types yields better performance than the same ranker trained without type information.- Anthology ID:
- P17-2032
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2017
- Address:
- Vancouver, Canada
- Editors:
- Regina Barzilay, Min-Yen Kan
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 203–208
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/P17-2032
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/P17-2032
- Cite (ACL):
- Xinyu Hua and Lu Wang. 2017. Understanding and Detecting Supporting Arguments of Diverse Types. In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 203–208, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Understanding and Detecting Supporting Arguments of Diverse Types (Hua & Wang, ACL 2017)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/P17-2032.pdf