Towards Better Non-Tree Argument Mining: Proposition-Level Biaffine Parsing with Task-Specific Parameterization

Gaku Morio, Hiroaki Ozaki, Terufumi Morishita, Yuta Koreeda, Kohsuke Yanai


Abstract
State-of-the-art argument mining studies have advanced the techniques for predicting argument structures. However, the technology for capturing non-tree-structured arguments is still in its infancy. In this paper, we focus on non-tree argument mining with a neural model. We jointly predict proposition types and edges between propositions. Our proposed model incorporates (i) task-specific parameterization (TSP) that effectively encodes a sequence of propositions and (ii) a proposition-level biaffine attention (PLBA) that can predict a non-tree argument consisting of edges. Experimental results show that both TSP and PLBA boost edge prediction performance compared to baselines.
Anthology ID:
2020.acl-main.298
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Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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July
Year:
2020
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Online
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Dan Jurafsky, Joyce Chai, Natalie Schluter, Joel Tetreault
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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3259–3266
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.298
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.298
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Gaku Morio, Hiroaki Ozaki, Terufumi Morishita, Yuta Koreeda, and Kohsuke Yanai. 2020. Towards Better Non-Tree Argument Mining: Proposition-Level Biaffine Parsing with Task-Specific Parameterization. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 3259–3266, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Towards Better Non-Tree Argument Mining: Proposition-Level Biaffine Parsing with Task-Specific Parameterization (Morio et al., ACL 2020)
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