On a razor's edge: evaluating arguments from expert opinion

Expert-Guided Contrastive Opinion Summarization for Controversial Issues

This paper presents a new model for the task of contrastive opinion summarization (COS) particularly for controversial issues. Traditional COS methods, which mainly rely on sentence similarity measures are not sufficient for a complex controversial issue. We therefore propose an Expert-Guided Contrastive Opinion Summarization (ECOS) model. Compared to previous methods, our model can (1) integra...

Profiles of Dialogue for Repairing Faults in Arguments from Expert Opinion

Using the profiles of dialogue method we identify a species of ad verecundiam fallacy that works by forestalling of questioning in arguments from expert opinion. A profile of dialogue is a graph structure used to model a sequence of speech acts surrounding both the putting forward of an argument and the response to it at the next moves in a dialogue. The method is applied to a case of cross-exa...

The razor's edge of human bonding: artificial fathers and surrogate mothers.

Validity of the Opinion of a Physician Specializing in the fall or Conversion of the Punishment of a Warlord and Corruptor on Earth with Mental Disorders

Warlord and corruption on earth are among the security crimes in the Islamic Penal Code adopted in 1392, which are separated from each other and each has its own instances. But what is important in the meantime is that some perpetrators of these crimes are not psychologically and medically able to bear the punishment, so it remains to be seen whether, given the importance and severity of these ...

Evaluating arguments from the reaction of the audience

In studying how lay people evaluate arguments, psychologists have typically focused on logical form and content. This emphasis has masked an important yet underappreciated aspect of everyday argument evaluation: social cues to argument strength. Here we focus on the ways in which observers evaluate arguments by the reaction they evoke in an audience. This type of evaluation is likely to occur e...