[PDF] Top 20 Annotating Argument Components and Relations in Persuasive Essays

... both components cover a complete ...several argument components like in example ...each argument as a statement, which is a sequence of words that constitutes a grammatically correct ...an ... See full document

... to argument components (AC) such as the number of claims, number of premises, fraction of sentences contain- ing argument ...to argument relations (AR), such as the number and ... See full document

... The study of argumentation is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary research field. It involves philosophy, communication science, logic, linguistics, psychology, and computer science. The first approaches to studying ... See full document

... ment components as support or ...an argument component belongs to the proponent or opponent (Peldszus and Stede, ...the components of an argument are already ...tifying argument ... See full document

... TOEFL persuasive essays: 1) features related to argument components (AC) such as the number of claims, number of premises, fraction of sentences containing argument com- ponents; 2) ... See full document

... grades essays based on fluency and gram- mar; IEA (Foltz et ...topical components; and the Bayesian Essay Test Scoring System (Rudner and Liang, ...of persuasive essays using lexical chaining ... See full document

... the argument com- ponents had been classified more ...non-support relations from claim to another claim, 32 from claim to premise, 5 from major claim to premise and 4 from major claim to claim among the ... See full document

... two components exhibit coref- ...the argument headed by P2, which does not have any children, has a Persuasiveness score of 4, which is obtained by summarizing the inherent strength of the premise and the ... See full document

... the argument components that the (dis)agreement has scope over ...both argument components as well as the existence of a relation between ...dress relations between complete arguments ... See full document

... In Positive and Negative post, Fact and Testimony often appear at near the terminal node of an argu- ment structure, which indicates that trying to per- suade is based on facts and personal experiences. Moreover, Value ... See full document

... academic essays, we demonstrated that such large and sparse feature spaces can cause difficulty for feature selection and pro- posed a method to design a more compact fea- ture ...tract argument and domain ... See full document

... 2 relations which are asymmetric. As an example, conditional relations are encoded as Contingency at Level 1, Condition at Level 2 and then either Arg1-as-cond (3) or Arg2-as-cond (4) at Level 3, depending ... See full document

... Both within the context of the SemEval task and already before, RTE approaches have been used for SAS. Levy et al. (2013) try to recognize partial entailment based on the facet approach by Nielsen et al. (2008) and aim ... See full document

... We take the same approach towards the task of annotating semantic relations: we provide the annotators with simplified guidelines, as well as with few positive and negative examples. In this way, we believe ... See full document

... The aim of this study was to show the feasibility of annotating temporal relations in a text and to pro- pose a methodology for the task. We thus define a way of evaluating the results, abstracting away ... See full document

... in persuasive texts that have been pro- duced in different communicative ...vs. persuasive), and ...course relations, used by the speaker to provide a convincing argument that might persuade ... See full document

... the relations annotated by both of the ...the argument spans having any overlapping tokens are also considered ...annotator’s argument span is fully in- cluded in the other annotator’s ... See full document

... to annotating the expert dataset, the annota- tors discussed the process and resolved conflicts on a separate development set of 20 ...an argument per- spective, the annotators fully agreed on the span of ... See full document

... The paper reviews two additional pilot corpora from different genres. These were annotated with ARs in order to test the way attribution is expressed in genres other than news articles. While no substantial differences ... See full document

... grading essays with respect to particular dimensions such as prompt adherence, coherence, and technical qual- ity, there has been relatively little work on grading the essay dimension of argu- ment strength, which ... See full document