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What changed your mind : the roles of dynamic topics and discourse in argumentation process
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Zeng, Jichuan, Li, Jing, He, Yulan, Gao, Cuiyun, Lyu, Michael and King, Irwin (2020) What changed your mind : the roles of dynamic topics and discourse in argumentation process. In: The Web Conference 2020, Taipei, 20-24 Apr 2020 . Published in: WWW '20: Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020 pp. 1502-1513. ISBN 9781450370233. doi:10.1145/3366423.3380223
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/3366423.3380223
Abstract
In our world with full of uncertainty, debates and argumentation contribute to the progress of science and society. Despite of the in- creasing attention to characterize human arguments, most progress made so far focus on the debate outcome, largely ignoring the dynamic patterns in argumentation processes. This paper presents a study that automatically analyzes the key factors in argument persuasiveness, beyond simply predicting who will persuade whom. Specifically, we propose a novel neural model that is able to dynamically track the changes of latent topics and discourse in argumentative conversations, allowing the investigation of their roles in influencing the outcomes of persuasion. Extensive experiments have been conducted on argumentative conversations on both social media and supreme court. The results show that our model outperforms state-of-the-art models in identifying persuasive arguments via explicitly exploring dynamic factors of topic and discourse. We further analyze the effects of topics and discourse on persuasiveness, and find that they are both useful -- topics provide concrete evidence while superior discourse styles may bias participants, especially in social media arguments. In addition, we draw some findings from our empirical results, which will help people better engage in future persuasive conversations.
Item Type: | Conference Item (Paper) | |||||||||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science | |||||||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Stochastic processes, Stochastic processes -- Computer programs, Human-computer interaction , Discussion -- Decision making -- Data processing. | |||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | WWW '20: Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020 | |||||||||||||||
Publisher: | ACM | |||||||||||||||
ISBN: | 9781450370233 | |||||||||||||||
Official Date: | April 2020 | |||||||||||||||
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Page Range: | pp. 1502-1513 | |||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1145/3366423.3380223 | |||||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | |||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 1 March 2020 | |||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 4 March 2020 | |||||||||||||||
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Conference Paper Type: | Paper | |||||||||||||||
Title of Event: | The Web Conference 2020 | |||||||||||||||
Type of Event: | Conference | |||||||||||||||
Location of Event: | Taipei | |||||||||||||||
Date(s) of Event: | 20-24 Apr 2020 | |||||||||||||||
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