ENTRUST: Argument Reframing with Language Models and Entailment

Tuhin Chakrabarty, Christopher Hidey, Smaranda Muresan


Abstract
Framing involves the positive or negative presentation of an argument or issue depending on the audience and goal of the speaker. Differences in lexical framing, the focus of our work, can have large effects on peoples’ opinions and beliefs. To make progress towards reframing arguments for positive effects, we create a dataset and method for this task. We use a lexical resource for “connotations” to create a parallel corpus and propose a method for argument reframing that combines controllable text generation (positive connotation) with a post-decoding entailment component (same denotation). Our results show that our method is effective compared to strong baselines along the dimensions of fluency, meaning, and trustworthiness/reduction of fear.
Anthology ID:
2021.naacl-main.394
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Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
Month:
June
Year:
2021
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Online
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Kristina Toutanova, Anna Rumshisky, Luke Zettlemoyer, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Iz Beltagy, Steven Bethard, Ryan Cotterell, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Yichao Zhou
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NAACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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4958–4971
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.394
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.394
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Tuhin Chakrabarty, Christopher Hidey, and Smaranda Muresan. 2021. ENTRUST: Argument Reframing with Language Models and Entailment. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 4958–4971, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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ENTRUST: Argument Reframing with Language Models and Entailment (Chakrabarty et al., NAACL 2021)
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