Belief-based Generation of Argumentative Claims

M. Alshomary, W.-F. Chen, T. Gurcke, H. Wachsmuth, in: Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021, pp. 224–223.

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When engaging in argumentative discourse, skilled human debaters tailor claims to the beliefs of the audience, to construct effective arguments. Recently, the field of computational argumentation witnessed extensive effort to address the automatic generation of arguments. However, existing approaches do not perform any audience-specific adaptation. In this work, we aim to bridge this gap by studying the task of belief-based claim generation: Given a controversial topic and a set of beliefs, generate an argumentative claim tailored to the beliefs. To tackle this task, we model the people's prior beliefs through their stances on controversial topics and extend state-of-the-art text generation models to generate claims conditioned on the beliefs. Our automatic evaluation confirms the ability of our approach to adapt claims to a set of given beliefs. In a manual study, we additionally evaluate the generated claims in terms of informativeness and their likelihood to be uttered by someone with a respective belief. Our results reveal the limitations of modeling users' beliefs based on their stances, but demonstrate the potential of encoding beliefs into argumentative texts, laying the ground for future exploration of audience reach.
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Alshomary M, Chen W-F, Gurcke T, Wachsmuth H. Belief-based Generation of Argumentative Claims. In: Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume. Association for Computational Linguistics; 2021:224-223.
Alshomary, M., Chen, W.-F., Gurcke, T., & Wachsmuth, H. (2021). Belief-based Generation of Argumentative Claims. Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume, 224–223.
@inproceedings{Alshomary_Chen_Gurcke_Wachsmuth_2021, title={Belief-based Generation of Argumentative Claims}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume}, publisher={Association for Computational Linguistics}, author={Alshomary, Milad and Chen, Wei-Fan and Gurcke, Timon and Wachsmuth, Henning}, year={2021}, pages={224–223} }
Alshomary, Milad, Wei-Fan Chen, Timon Gurcke, and Henning Wachsmuth. “Belief-Based Generation of Argumentative Claims.” In Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume, 224–223. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021.
M. Alshomary, W.-F. Chen, T. Gurcke, and H. Wachsmuth, “Belief-based Generation of Argumentative Claims,” in Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume, Online, 2021, pp. 224–223.
Alshomary, Milad, et al. “Belief-Based Generation of Argumentative Claims.” Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021, pp. 224–223.

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