Title
Data Augmentation for Improving the Prediction of Validity and Novelty of Argumentative Conclusions.
Abstract
We address the problem of automatically predicting the quality of a conclusion given a set of (textual) premises of an argument, focusing in particular on the task of predicting the validity and novelty of the argumentative conclusion. We propose a multi-task approach that jointly predicts the validity and novelty of the textual conclusion, relying on pre-trained language models fine-tuned on the task. As training data for this task is scarce and costly to obtain, we experimentally investigate the impact of data augmentation approaches for improving the accuracy of prediction compared to a baseline that relies on task-specific data only. We consider the generation of synthetic data as well as the integration of datasets from related argument tasks. We show that especially our synthetic data, combined with class-balancing and instance-specific learning rates, substantially improves classification results (+15.1 points in
Year
Venue
DocType
2022
International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Philipp Heinisch101.01
Moritz Plenz200.68
Juri Opitz327.11
Anette Frank46311.94
Philipp Cimiano53338217.41