200K+ Crowdsourced Political Arguments for a New Chilean Constitution

Constanza Fierro, Claudio Fuentes, Jorge Pérez, Mauricio Quezada


Abstract
In this paper we present the dataset of 200,000+ political arguments produced in the local phase of the 2016 Chilean constitutional process. We describe the human processing of this data by the government officials, and the manual tagging of arguments performed by members of our research group. Afterwards we focus on classification tasks that mimic the human processes, comparing linear methods with neural network architectures. The experiments show that some of the manual tasks are suitable for automatization. In particular, the best methods achieve a 90% top-5 accuracy in a multi-class classification of arguments, and 65% macro-averaged F1-score for tagging arguments according to a three-part argumentation model.
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W17-5101
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Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Argument Mining
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September
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2017
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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Ivan Habernal, Iryna Gurevych, Kevin Ashley, Claire Cardie, Nancy Green, Diane Litman, Georgios Petasis, Chris Reed, Noam Slonim, Vern Walker
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ArgMining
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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1–10
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https://aclanthology.org/W17-5101
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10.18653/v1/W17-5101
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Constanza Fierro, Claudio Fuentes, Jorge Pérez, and Mauricio Quezada. 2017. 200K+ Crowdsourced Political Arguments for a New Chilean Constitution. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Argument Mining, pages 1–10, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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