Annotating and Analyzing Semantic Role of Elementary Units and Relations in Online Persuasive Arguments (P19-2)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on the features of persuasiveness focus on lexical features and argumentative features. |
| Approach: | They propose an annotation scheme that captures the semantic role of arguments in a popular online persuasion forum, ChangeMyView. |
| Outcome: | The proposed scheme captures the semantic role of arguments in a popular online persuasion forum, so-called ChangeMyView. |
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