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title = "Cross-Domain Argument Quality Estimation",
author = "Fromm, Michael and
Berrendorf, Max and
Faerman, Evgeniy and
Seidl, Thomas",
editor = "Rogers, Anna and
Boyd-Graber, Jordan and
Okazaki, Naoaki",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023",
month = jul,
year = "2023",
address = "Toronto, Canada",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.848",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.848",
pages = "13435--13448",
abstract = "Argumentation is one of society{'}s foundational pillars, and, sparked by advances in NLP, and the vast availability of text data, automated mining of arguments receives increasing attention. A decisive property of arguments is their strength or quality. While there are works on the automated estimation of argument strength, their scope is narrow:They focus on isolated datasets and neglect the interactions with related argument-mining tasks, such as argument identification and evidence detection. In this work, we close this gap by approaching argument quality estimation from multiple different angles:Grounded on rich results from thorough empirical evaluations, we assess the generalization capabilities of argument quality estimation across diverse domains and the interplay with related argument mining tasks. We find that generalization depends on a sufficient representation of different domains in the training part. In zero-shot transfer and multi-task experiments, we reveal that argument quality is among the more challenging tasks but can improve others. We publish our code at \url{https://github.com/fromm-m/acl-cross-domain-aq}.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Cross-Domain Argument Quality Estimation
%A Fromm, Michael
%A Berrendorf, Max
%A Faerman, Evgeniy
%A Seidl, Thomas
%Y Rogers, Anna
%Y Boyd-Graber, Jordan
%Y Okazaki, Naoaki
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023
%D 2023
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Toronto, Canada
%F fromm-etal-2023-cross
%X Argumentation is one of society’s foundational pillars, and, sparked by advances in NLP, and the vast availability of text data, automated mining of arguments receives increasing attention. A decisive property of arguments is their strength or quality. While there are works on the automated estimation of argument strength, their scope is narrow:They focus on isolated datasets and neglect the interactions with related argument-mining tasks, such as argument identification and evidence detection. In this work, we close this gap by approaching argument quality estimation from multiple different angles:Grounded on rich results from thorough empirical evaluations, we assess the generalization capabilities of argument quality estimation across diverse domains and the interplay with related argument mining tasks. We find that generalization depends on a sufficient representation of different domains in the training part. In zero-shot transfer and multi-task experiments, we reveal that argument quality is among the more challenging tasks but can improve others. We publish our code at https://github.com/fromm-m/acl-cross-domain-aq.
%R 10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.848
%U https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.848
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.848
%P 13435-13448
Markdown (Informal)
[Cross-Domain Argument Quality Estimation](https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.848) (Fromm et al., Findings 2023)
ACL
- Michael Fromm, Max Berrendorf, Evgeniy Faerman, and Thomas Seidl. 2023. Cross-Domain Argument Quality Estimation. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, pages 13435–13448, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.