Combining textual entailment and argumentation theory for supporting online debates interactions

  • Authors:
  • Elena Cabrio;Serena Villata

  • Affiliations:
  • INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis cedex, France;INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • ACL '12 Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Short Papers - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Blogs and forums are widely adopted by online communities to debate about various issues. However, a user that wants to cut in on a debate may experience some difficulties in extracting the current accepted positions, and can be discouraged from interacting through these applications. In our paper, we combine textual entailment with argumentation theory to automatically extract the arguments from debates and to evaluate their acceptability.