Nhat Tran


2021

pdf bib
Multi-task Learning in Argument Mining for Persuasive Online Discussions
Nhat Tran | Diane Litman
Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Argument Mining

We utilize multi-task learning to improve argument mining in persuasive online discussions, in which both micro-level and macro-level argumentation must be taken into consideration. Our models learn to identify argument components and the relations between them at the same time. We also tackle the low-precision which arises from imbalanced relation data by experimenting with SMOTE and XGBoost. Our approaches improve over baselines that use the same pre-trained language model but process the argument component task and two relation tasks separately. Furthermore, our results suggest that the tasks to be incorporated into multi-task learning should be taken into consideration as using all relevant tasks does not always lead to the best performance.
Search
Co-authors
Venues