Argumentation Synthesis following Rhetorical Strategies

verfasst von

Henning Wachsmuth, Manfred Stede, Roxanne El Baff, Khalid Al-Khatib, Maria Skeppstedt, Benno Stein

Abstract

Persuasion is rarely achieved through a loose set of arguments alone. Rather, an effective delivery of arguments follows a rhetorical strategy, combining logical reasoning with appeals to ethics and emotion. We argue that such a strategy means to select, arrange, and phrase a set of argumentative discourse units. In this paper, we model rhetorical strategies for the computational synthesis of effective argumentation. In a study, we let 26 experts synthesize argumentative texts with different strategies for 10 topics. We find that the experts agree in the selection significantly more when following the same strategy. While the texts notably vary for different strategies, especially their arrangement remains stable. The results suggest that our model enables a strategical synthesis.

Externe Organisation(en)

Universität Paderborn
Universität Potsdam
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Linnaeus University

Typ

Aufsatz in Konferenzband

Seiten

3753-3765

Anzahl der Seiten

13

Publikationsdatum

08.2018

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Sprache und Linguistik, Theoretische Informatik und Mathematik, Linguistik und Sprache

Elektronische Version(en)

https://aclanthology.org/C18-1318 (Zugang: Offen)