Emaad Manzoor
2021
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Causal Inference and NLP
Amir Feder
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Katherine Keith
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Emaad Manzoor
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Reid Pryzant
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Dhanya Sridhar
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Zach Wood-Doughty
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Jacob Eisenstein
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Justin Grimmer
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Roi Reichart
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Molly Roberts
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Uri Shalit
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Brandon Stewart
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Victor Veitch
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Diyi Yang
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Causal Inference and NLP
2020
Detecting Attackable Sentences in Arguments
Yohan Jo
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Seojin Bang
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Emaad Manzoor
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Eduard Hovy
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Chris Reed
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
Finding attackable sentences in an argument is the first step toward successful refutation in argumentation. We present a first large-scale analysis of sentence attackability in online arguments. We analyze driving reasons for attacks in argumentation and identify relevant characteristics of sentences. We demonstrate that a sentence’s attackability is associated with many of these characteristics regarding the sentence’s content, proposition types, and tone, and that an external knowledge source can provide useful information about attackability. Building on these findings, we demonstrate that machine learning models can automatically detect attackable sentences in arguments, significantly better than several baselines and comparably well to laypeople.
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