Arguments from Need in Natural Resource Debates

Sustainable livelihoods and political capital: Arguments and evidence from decentralisation and natural resource management in India

Identifying Prominent Arguments in Online Debates Using Semantic Textual Similarity

Online debates sparkle argumentative discussions from which generally accepted arguments often emerge. We consider the task of unsupervised identification of prominent argument in online debates. As a first step, in this paper we perform a cluster analysis using semantic textual similarity to detect similar arguments. We perform a preliminary cluster evaluation and error analysis based on clust...

Recommending the Most Encompassing Opposing and Endorsing Arguments in Debates

Arguments are essential objects in DirectDemocracyP2P, where they can occur both in association with signatures for petitions, or in association with other debated decisions, such as bug sorting by importance. The arguments of a signer on a given issue are grouped into one single justification, are classified by the type of signature (e.g., supporting or opposing), and can be subject to various...

Natural Rules for Optimal Debates

Two players hold contradicting positions regarding a given issue, which depends on a (fixed) number of aspects or criteria they both know. Suppose, as a third-party, that you want to make a decision based on what will report the players. Unfortunately, what the players can communicate is limited. How should you design the rules of your protocol so as to minimize the mistakes induced by these co...

Distinguishing “good” from “bad” Arguments in Online Debates & Feature Analysis using Feed-Forward Neural Networks

Argument extraction and analysis in online content has gained significant interest in the past few years. The amount of information on the web increases daily with an increasing portion of information and opinion exchange occurring in online interactions on social media. Suitably mined and analysed, it could provide a lot of insight into the beliefs and reasoning of people about problems that a...