Incorporating Argument-Level Interactions for Persuasion Comments Evaluation using Co-attention Model

Lu Ji, Zhongyu Wei, Xiangkun Hu, Yang Liu, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang


Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the issue of persuasiveness evaluation for argumentative comments. Most of the existing research explores different text features of reply comments on word level and ignores interactions between participants. In general, viewpoints are usually expressed by multiple arguments and exchanged on argument level. To better model the process of dialogical argumentation, we propose a novel co-attention mechanism based neural network to capture the interactions between participants on argument level. Experimental results on a publicly available dataset show that the proposed model significantly outperforms some state-of-the-art methods for persuasiveness evaluation. Further analysis reveals that attention weights computed in our model are able to extract interactive argument pairs from the original post and the reply.
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C18-1314
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Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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August
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2018
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Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Emily M. Bender, Leon Derczynski, Pierre Isabelle
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COLING
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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3703–3714
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Lu Ji, Zhongyu Wei, Xiangkun Hu, Yang Liu, Qi Zhang, and Xuanjing Huang. 2018. Incorporating Argument-Level Interactions for Persuasion Comments Evaluation using Co-attention Model. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 3703–3714, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Incorporating Argument-Level Interactions for Persuasion Comments Evaluation using Co-attention Model (Ji et al., COLING 2018)
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