Generating Sentential Arguments from Diverse Perspectives on Controversial Topic

ChaeHun Park, Wonsuk Yang, Jong Park


Abstract
Considering diverse aspects of an argumentative issue is an essential step for mitigating a biased opinion and making reasonable decisions. A related generation model can produce flexible results that cover a wide range of topics, compared to the retrieval-based method that may show unstable performance for unseen data. In this paper, we study the problem of generating sentential arguments from multiple perspectives, and propose a neural method to address this problem. Our model, ArgDiver (Argument generation model from diverse perspectives), in a way a conversational system, successfully generates high-quality sentential arguments. At the same time, the automatically generated arguments by our model show a higher diversity than those generated by any other baseline models. We believe that our work provides evidence for the potential of a good generation model in providing diverse perspectives on a controversial topic.
Anthology ID:
D19-5007
Volume:
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Internet Freedom: Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda
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November
Year:
2019
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Hong Kong, China
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Anna Feldman, Giovanni Da San Martino, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Chris Brew, Chris Leberknight, Preslav Nakov
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NLP4IF
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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56–65
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/D19-5007
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D19-5007
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ChaeHun Park, Wonsuk Yang, and Jong Park. 2019. Generating Sentential Arguments from Diverse Perspectives on Controversial Topic. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Internet Freedom: Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda, pages 56–65, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Generating Sentential Arguments from Diverse Perspectives on Controversial Topic (Park et al., NLP4IF 2019)
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