Automatic Article Commenting: the Task and Dataset

Lianhui Qin, Lemao Liu, Wei Bi, Yan Wang, Xiaojiang Liu, Zhiting Hu, Hai Zhao, Shuming Shi


Abstract
Comments of online articles provide extended views and improve user engagement. Automatically making comments thus become a valuable functionality for online forums, intelligent chatbots, etc. This paper proposes the new task of automatic article commenting, and introduces a large-scale Chinese dataset with millions of real comments and a human-annotated subset characterizing the comments’ varying quality. Incorporating the human bias of comment quality, we further develop automatic metrics that generalize a broad set of popular reference-based metrics and exhibit greatly improved correlations with human evaluations.
Anthology ID:
P18-2025
Volume:
Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)
Month:
July
Year:
2018
Address:
Melbourne, Australia
Editors:
Iryna Gurevych, Yusuke Miyao
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ACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
151–156
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P18-2025
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P18-2025
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Lianhui Qin, Lemao Liu, Wei Bi, Yan Wang, Xiaojiang Liu, Zhiting Hu, Hai Zhao, and Shuming Shi. 2018. Automatic Article Commenting: the Task and Dataset. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 151–156, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Automatic Article Commenting: the Task and Dataset (Qin et al., ACL 2018)
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