Identifying the Human Values behind Arguments
- authored by
- 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.
- External Organisation(s)
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Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Paderborn University
Leipzig University
Technical University of Munich (TUM)
- Type
- Conference contribution
- Pages
- 4459 - 4471
- No. of pages
- 13
- Publication date
- 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/10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.306 (Access:
Open)
