Title
Changing views: Persuasion modeling and argument extraction from online discussions
Abstract
Persuasion and argumentation are possibly among the most complex examples of the interplay between multiple human subjects. With the advent of the Internet, online forums provide wide platforms for people to share their opinions and reasonings around various diverse topics. In this work, we attempt to model persuasive interaction between users on Reddit, a popular online discussion forum. We propose a deep LSTM model to classify whether a conversation leads to a successful persuasion or not, and use this model to predict whether a certain chain of arguments can lead to persuasion. While learning persuasion dynamics, our model tends to identify argument facets implicitly, using an attention mechanism. We also propose a semi-supervised approach to extract argumentative components from discussion threads. Both these models provide useful insight into how people engage in argumentation on online discussion forums.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.ipm.2019.102085
Information Processing & Management
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Persuasion modeling,Argument mining,Social media,Deep LSTM,Attention mechanism,Dynamic time warping distance
Journal
57
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0306-4573
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Subhabrata Dutta132.06
D. Das271776.14
Tanmoy Chakraborty346676.71