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Contrastive Reasons Detection and Clustering from Online Polarized Debate (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: A system pulls out short phrases that state each side's reasons in heated online debates and groups similar ones together, all without labeled examples. It beat the best existing tools for summarizing opposing views on debate data.

Abstract

This work tackles the problem of unsupervised modeling and extraction of the main contrastive sentential reasons conveyed by divergent viewpoints on polarized issues. It proposes a pipeline approach centered around the detection and clustering of phrases, assimilated to argument facets using a novel Phrase Author Interaction Topic-Viewpoint model. The evaluation is based on the informativeness, the relevance and the clustering accuracy of extracted reasons. The pipeline approach shows a significant improvement over state-of-the-art methods in contrastive summarization on online debate datasets.

Amine Trabelsi, Osmar R. Zaiane
arXiv:1908.00648 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.IR, cs.LG, cs.SI · submitted Aug 1, 2019
abstract · pdf · html · Best paper award in CICLing 2019: International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing

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