The Moral Debater
A Study on the Computational Generation of Morally Framed Arguments
- authored by
- Milad Alshomary, Roxanne El Baff, Timon Gurcke, Henning Wachsmuth
- Abstract
An audience's prior beliefs and morals are strong indicators of how likely they will be affected by a given argument. Utilizing such knowledge can help focus on shared values to bring disagreeing parties towards agreement. In argumentation technology, however, this is barely exploited so far. This paper studies the feasibility of automatically generating morally framed arguments as well as their effect on different audiences. Following the moral foundation theory, we propose a system that effectively generates arguments focusing on different morals. In an in-depth user study, we ask liberals and conservatives to evaluate the impact of these arguments. Our results suggest that, particularly when prior beliefs are challenged, an audience becomes more affected by morally framed arguments.
- External Organisation(s)
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Paderborn University
DLR-Institute of Aeroelastics
- Type
- Conference contribution
- Pages
- 8782 - 8797
- No. of pages
- 16
- Publication date
- 05.2022
- Publication status
- Published
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Science Applications, Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics
- Electronic version(s)
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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2203.14563 (Access:
Open)
https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.601 (Access: Open)