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title = "Unsupervised Detection of Argumentative Units though Topic Modeling Techniques",
author = "Ferrara, Alfio and
Montanelli, Stefano and
Petasis, Georgios",
editor = "Habernal, Ivan and
Gurevych, Iryna and
Ashley, Kevin and
Cardie, Claire and
Green, Nancy and
Litman, Diane and
Petasis, Georgios and
Reed, Chris and
Slonim, Noam and
Walker, Vern",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Argument Mining",
month = sep,
year = "2017",
address = "Copenhagen, Denmark",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W17-5113",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-5113",
pages = "97--107",
abstract = "In this paper we present a new unsupervised approach, {``}Attraction to Topics{''} {--} A2T , for the detection of argumentative units, a sub-task of argument mining. Motivated by the importance of topic identification in manual annotation, we examine whether topic modeling can be used for performing unsupervised detection of argumentative sentences, and to what extend topic modeling can be used to classify sentences as claims and premises. Preliminary evaluation results suggest that topic information can be successfully used for the detection of argumentative sentences, at least for corpora used for evaluation. Our approach has been evaluated on two English corpora, the first of which contains 90 persuasive essays, while the second is a collection of 340 documents from user generated content.",
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%A Ferrara, Alfio
%A Montanelli, Stefano
%A Petasis, Georgios
%Y Habernal, Ivan
%Y Gurevych, Iryna
%Y Ashley, Kevin
%Y Cardie, Claire
%Y Green, Nancy
%Y Litman, Diane
%Y Petasis, Georgios
%Y Reed, Chris
%Y Slonim, Noam
%Y Walker, Vern
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Markdown (Informal)
[Unsupervised Detection of Argumentative Units though Topic Modeling Techniques](https://aclanthology.org/W17-5113) (Ferrara et al., ArgMining 2017)
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