Publication Details

Intrinsic Quality Assessment of Arguments

authored by
Henning Wachsmuth, Till Werner
Abstract

Several quality dimensions of natural language arguments have been investigated. Some are likely to be reflected in linguistic features (e.g., an argument’s arrangement), whereas others depend on context (e.g., relevance) or topic knowledge (e.g., acceptability). In this paper, we study the intrinsic computational assessment of 15 dimensions, i.e., only learning from an argument’s text. In systematic experiments with eight feature types on an existing corpus, we observe moderate but significant learning success for most dimensions. Rhetorical quality seems hardest to assess, and subjectivity features turn out strong, although length bias in the corpus impedes full validity. We also find that human assessors differ more clearly to each other than to our approach.

External Organisation(s)
Paderborn University
Type
Conference contribution
Pages
6739-6745
No. of pages
7
Publication date
2020
Publication status
Published
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Theoretical Computer Science, Computer Science Applications, Computational Theory and Mathematics
Electronic version(s)
https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.592 (Access: Open)