Syntax and Coherence - The Effect on Automatic Argument Quality Assessment

  • Xichen Sun
  • , Wenhan Chao
  • , Zhunchen Luo*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this paper, we focus on the task of automatic argument quality assessment. Prior empirical methods largely ignore the syntax structure in one argument or depend on handcrafted features that have shallow representation ability. In contrast, we proposed a method that directly models syntax and topic coherence. Our method can acquire both topic coherence and syntactic information from an argument that explicitly utilizes various types of relationships among words, thus can help with argument quality assessment. Experimental results suggest that our method significantly outperforms the previous state-of-the-art method and strongly indicates syntax and coherence correlate with argument quality.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNatural Language Processing and Chinese Computing - 10th CCF International Conference, NLPCC 2021, Proceedings
EditorsLu Wang, Yansong Feng, Yu Hong, Ruifang He
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages3-12
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783030884826
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event10th CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2021 - Qingdao, China
Duration: 13 Oct 202117 Oct 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13029 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference10th CCF Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing, NLPCC 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityQingdao
Period13/10/2117/10/21

Keywords

  • Argument mining
  • Argument quality assessment
  • Coherence
  • Syntax

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