Aspect-Controlled Neural Argument Generation

Benjamin Schiller, Johannes Daxenberger, Iryna Gurevych


Abstract
We rely on arguments in our daily lives to deliver our opinions and base them on evidence, making them more convincing in turn. However, finding and formulating arguments can be challenging. In this work, we present the Arg-CTRL - a language model for argument generation that can be controlled to generate sentence-level arguments for a given topic, stance, and aspect. We define argument aspect detection as a necessary method to allow this fine-granular control and crowdsource a dataset with 5,032 arguments annotated with aspects. Our evaluation shows that the Arg-CTRL is able to generate high-quality, aspect-specific arguments, applicable to automatic counter-argument generation. We publish the model weights and all datasets and code to train the Arg-CTRL.
Anthology ID:
2021.naacl-main.34
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
Month:
June
Year:
2021
Address:
Online
Editors:
Kristina Toutanova, Anna Rumshisky, Luke Zettlemoyer, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Iz Beltagy, Steven Bethard, Ryan Cotterell, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Yichao Zhou
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NAACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
380–396
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.34
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.34
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Cite (ACL):
Benjamin Schiller, Johannes Daxenberger, and Iryna Gurevych. 2021. Aspect-Controlled Neural Argument Generation. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 380–396, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Aspect-Controlled Neural Argument Generation (Schiller et al., NAACL 2021)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.34.pdf
Video:
 https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.34.mp4
Code
 UKPLab/controlled-argument-generation