Identifying the Human Values behind Arguments

verfasst von

Johannes Kiesel, Milad Alshomary, Nicolas Handke, Xiaoni Cai, Henning Wachsmuth, Benno Stein

Abstract

This paper studies the (often implicit) human values behind natural language arguments, such as to have freedom of thought or to be broadminded. Values are commonly accepted answers to why some option is desirable in the ethical sense and are thus essential both in real-world argumentation and theoretical argumentation frameworks. However, their large variety has been a major obstacle to modeling them in argument mining. To overcome this obstacle, we contribute an operationalization of human values, namely a multi-level taxonomy with 54 values that is in line with psychological research. Moreover, we provide a dataset of 5270 arguments from four geographical cultures, manually annotated for human values. First experiments with the automatic classification of human values are promising, with F₁-scores up to 0.81 and 0.25 on average.

Externe Organisation(en)

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Universität Paderborn
Universität Leipzig
Technische Universität München (TUM)

Typ

Aufsatz in Konferenzband

Seiten

4459 - 4471

Anzahl der Seiten

13

Publikationsdatum

2022

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Angewandte Informatik, Linguistik und Sprache, Sprache und Linguistik

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.306 (Zugang: Offen)