Papers with ChangeMyView
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. |
StoryARG: a corpus of narratives and personal experiences in argumentative texts (2023.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Narratives and argumentation are deeply related, according to psychologists and social scientists. |
| Approach: | They annotated StoryARG from well-established corpora in computational argumentation and the Social Sciences, as well as comments to New York Times articles. |
| Outcome: | The dataset contains 2451 textual spans annotated at two levels . it reveals positive impact on effectiveness for stories which illustrate a solution to a problem and in general, annotator-specific preferences . |
Revealing and Predicting Online Persuasion Strategy with Elementary Units (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies have examined persuasive discourses with regard to dynamics or lexical features. |
| Approach: | They propose to annotate five types of EUs in a persuasive forum and propose a baseline neural model that identifies the EU boundary and type. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model reveals that EUs definitively characterize online persuasive strategies. |
Does Social Pressure Drive Persuasion in Online Fora? (2021.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Using social features, we hypothesize that comments from the ambient community can either affirm the original view or implicitly exert pressure to change it. |
| Approach: | They propose a structured model to capture the ambient community’s sentiment towards the discussion and its effect on persuasion. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model captures the ambient community’s sentiment towards the discussion and its effect on persuasion. |