One of the main tasks in argument mining is the retrieval of argumentative content pertaining to a given topic. Most previous work addressed this task by retrieving a relatively small number of relevant documents as the initial source for such content. This line of research yielded moderate success, which is of limited use in a real-world system. Furthermore, for such a system to yield a comprehensive set of relevant arguments, over a wide range of topics, it requires leveraging a large and diverse corpus in an appropriate manner. Here we present a first end-to-end high-precision, corpus-wide argument mining system. This is made possible by combining sentence-level queries over an appropriate indexing of a very large corpus of newspaper articles, with an iterative annotation scheme. This scheme addresses the inherent label bias in the data and pinpoints the regions of the sample space whose manual labeling is required to obtain high-precision among top-ranked candidates.
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/aaai/Ein-DorSDHSGAGC20,
author = {Liat Ein{-}Dor and
Eyal Shnarch and
Lena Dankin and
Alon Halfon and
Benjamin Sznajder and
Ariel Gera and
Carlos Alzate and
Martin Gleize and
Leshem Choshen and
Yufang Hou and
Yonatan Bilu and
Ranit Aharonov and
Noam Slonim},
title = {Corpus Wide Argument Mining - {A} Working Solution},
booktitle = {The Thirty-Fourth {AAAI} Conference on Artificial Intelligence, {AAAI}
2020, The Thirty-Second Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Conference, {IAAI} 2020, The Tenth {AAAI} Symposium on Educational
Advances in Artificial Intelligence, {EAAI} 2020, New York, NY, USA,
February 7-12, 2020},
pages = {7683--7691},
publisher = {{AAAI} Press},
year = {2020},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i05.6270},
doi = {10.1609/AAAI.V34I05.6270},
timestamp = {Mon, 04 Sep 2023 12:29:24 +0200},
biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/aaai/Ein-DorSDHSGAGC20.bib},
bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}
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