Exploring Morality in Argumentation

Jonathan Kobbe, Ines Rehbein, Ioana Hulpuș, Heiner Stuckenschmidt


Abstract
Sentiment and stance are two important concepts for the analysis of arguments. We propose to add another perspective to the analysis, namely moral sentiment. We argue that moral values are crucial for ideological debates and can thus add useful information for argument mining. In the paper, we present different models for automatically predicting moral sentiment in debates and evaluate them on a manually annotated testset. We then apply our models to investigate how moral values in arguments relate to argument quality, stance and audience reactions.
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2020.argmining-1.4
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Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Argument Mining
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December
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2020
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Online
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Elena Cabrio, Serena Villata
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ArgMining
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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30–40
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.argmining-1.4
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Jonathan Kobbe, Ines Rehbein, Ioana Hulpuș, and Heiner Stuckenschmidt. 2020. Exploring Morality in Argumentation. In Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Argument Mining, pages 30–40, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Exploring Morality in Argumentation (Kobbe et al., ArgMining 2020)
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.argmining-1.4.pdf
Code
 dwslab/morality-in-arguments