PerspectroScope: A Window to the World of Diverse Perspectives

Sihao Chen, Daniel Khashabi, Chris Callison-Burch, Dan Roth


Abstract
This work presents PerspectroScope, a web-based system which lets users query a discussion-worthy natural language claim, and extract and visualize various perspectives in support or against the claim, along with evidence supporting each perspective. The system thus lets users explore various perspectives that could touch upon aspects of the issue at hand. The system is built as a combination of retrieval engines and learned textual-entailment-like classifiers built using a few recent developments in natural language understanding. To make the system more adaptive, expand its coverage, and improve its decisions over time, our platform employs various mechanisms to get corrections from the users. PerspectroScope is available at github.com/CogComp/perspectroscope Web demo link: http://orwell.seas.upenn.edu:4002/ Link to demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXBTR1Sp3Bs
Anthology ID:
P19-3022
Volume:
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
Month:
July
Year:
2019
Address:
Florence, Italy
Editors:
Marta R. Costa-jussà, Enrique Alfonseca
Venue:
ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
Note:
Pages:
129–134
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P19-3022
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P19-3022
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Cite (ACL):
Sihao Chen, Daniel Khashabi, Chris Callison-Burch, and Dan Roth. 2019. PerspectroScope: A Window to the World of Diverse Perspectives. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 129–134, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
PerspectroScope: A Window to the World of Diverse Perspectives (Chen et al., ACL 2019)
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PDF:
https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-5/P19-3022.pdf
Code
 CogComp/perspectroscope