Title
Summarizing Dialogic Arguments from Social Media.
Abstract
Online argumentative dialog is a rich source of information on popular beliefs and opinions that could be useful to companies as well as governmental or public policy agencies. Compact, easy to read, summaries of these dialogues would thus be highly valuable. A priori, it is not even clear what form such a summary should take. Previous work on summarization has primarily focused on summarizing written texts, where the notion of an abstract of the text is well defined. We collect gold standard training data consisting of five human summaries for each of 161 dialogues on the topics of Gay Marriage, Gun Control and Abortion. We present several different computational models aimed at identifying segments of the dialogues whose content should be used for the summary, using linguistic features and Word2vec features with both SVMs and Bidirectional LSTMs. We show that we can identify the most important arguments by using the dialog context with a best F-measure of 0.74 for gun control, 0.71 for gay marriage, and 0.67 for abortion.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.21437/SemDial.2017-14
arXiv: Computation and Language
Field
DocType
Volume
Dialog box,Automatic summarization,Dialogic,Argumentative,Social media,Computer science,Public policy,Word2vec,Linguistics,Gun control
Journal
abs/1711.00092
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
22
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amita Misra1194.08
Shereen Oraby2608.30
Shubhangi Tandon321.37
Sharath TS400.34
Pranav Anand526019.70
Marilyn A Walker63893418.91