Rhetoric, Logic, and Dialectic: Advancing Theory-based Argument Quality Assessment in Natural Language Processing (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing work on argument quality (AQ) focuses on overall quality, but there is no large-scale theory-based corpus and corresponding computational models. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a large-scale English multi-domain argumentative writing corpus annotated with theory-based AQ scores to assess argument quality. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods improve argument quality in three domains and can be used as strong baselines for future work. |
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