{"publisher":"Association for Computational Linguistics","publication":"Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume","abstract":[{"text":"When engaging in argumentative discourse, skilled human debaters tailor\r\nclaims to the beliefs of the audience, to construct effective arguments.\r\nRecently, the field of computational argumentation witnessed extensive effort\r\nto address the automatic generation of arguments. However, existing approaches\r\ndo not perform any audience-specific adaptation. In this work, we aim to bridge\r\nthis gap by studying the task of belief-based claim generation: Given a\r\ncontroversial topic and a set of beliefs, generate an argumentative claim\r\ntailored to the beliefs. To tackle this task, we model the people's prior\r\nbeliefs through their stances on controversial topics and extend\r\nstate-of-the-art text generation models to generate claims conditioned on the\r\nbeliefs. Our automatic evaluation confirms the ability of our approach to adapt\r\nclaims to a set of given beliefs. In a manual study, we additionally evaluate\r\nthe generated claims in terms of informativeness and their likelihood to be\r\nuttered by someone with a respective belief. Our results reveal the limitations\r\nof modeling users' beliefs based on their stances, but demonstrate the\r\npotential of encoding beliefs into argumentative texts, laying the ground for\r\nfuture exploration of audience reach.","lang":"eng"}],"department":[{"_id":"600"}],"author":[{"id":"73059","full_name":"Alshomary, Milad","last_name":"Alshomary","first_name":"Milad"},{"last_name":"Chen","id":"82920","full_name":"Chen, Wei-Fan","first_name":"Wei-Fan"},{"first_name":"Timon","full_name":"Gurcke, Timon","id":"52174","last_name":"Gurcke"},{"first_name":"Henning","last_name":"Wachsmuth","id":"3900","full_name":"Wachsmuth, Henning"}],"title":"Belief-based Generation of Argumentative Claims","status":"public","citation":{"apa":"Alshomary, M., Chen, W.-F., Gurcke, T., &#38; Wachsmuth, H. (2021). Belief-based Generation of Argumentative Claims. <i>Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume</i>, 224–223.","short":"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.","mla":"Alshomary, Milad, et al. “Belief-Based Generation of Argumentative Claims.” <i>Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume</i>, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021, pp. 224–223.","ama":"Alshomary M, Chen W-F, Gurcke T, Wachsmuth H. Belief-based Generation of Argumentative Claims. In: <i>Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume</i>. Association for Computational Linguistics; 2021:224-223.","bibtex":"@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} }","chicago":"Alshomary, Milad, Wei-Fan Chen, Timon Gurcke, and Henning Wachsmuth. “Belief-Based Generation of Argumentative Claims.” In <i>Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume</i>, 224–223. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021.","ieee":"M. Alshomary, W.-F. Chen, T. Gurcke, and H. Wachsmuth, “Belief-based Generation of Argumentative Claims,” in <i>Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume</i>, Online, 2021, pp. 224–223."},"main_file_link":[{"url":"https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2021.eacl-main.17"}],"date_created":"2021-02-05T08:00:07Z","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"user_id":"82920","_id":"21178","year":"2021","page":"224-223","type":"conference","date_updated":"2022-05-09T15:01:53Z","project":[{"name":"SFB 901: SFB 901","_id":"1"},{"name":"SFB 901 - B: SFB 901 - Project Area B","_id":"3"},{"name":"SFB 901 - B1: SFB 901 - Subproject B1","_id":"9"}],"conference":{"location":"Online","name":"Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume"}}