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2011 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Semantic Computing
Identifying Justifications in Written Dialogs
Palo Alto, California USA
September 18-September 21
ISBN: 978-0-7695-4492-2
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Or Biran, Owen Rambow, "Identifying Justifications in Written Dialogs," 2012 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Semantic Computing, pp. 162-168, 2011 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Semantic Computing, 2011.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/ICSC.2011.41,
author = {Or Biran and Owen Rambow},
title = {Identifying Justifications in Written Dialogs},
journal ={2012 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Semantic Computing},
volume = {0},
year = {2011},
isbn = {978-0-7695-4492-2},
pages = {162-168},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICSC.2011.41},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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JO - 2012 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Semantic Computing
TI - Identifying Justifications in Written Dialogs
SN - 978-0-7695-4492-2
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A1 - Owen Rambow,
PY - 2011
KW - justification
KW - discourse
KW - written dialog
KW - argumentation
KW - blogs
KW - rst
VL - 0
JA - 2012 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Semantic Computing
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In written dialog, discourse participants need to justify claims they make, to convince the reader the claim is true and/or relevant to the discourse. This paper presents a new task (with an associated corpus), namely detecting such justifications. We investigate the nature of such justifications, and observe that the justifications themselves often contain discourse structure. We therefore develop a method to detect the existence of certain types of discourse relations, which helps us classify whether a segment is a justification or not. Our task is novel, and our work is novel in that it uses a large set of connectives (which we call indicators), and in that it uses a large set of discourse relations, without choosing among them.
Index Terms:
justification, discourse, written dialog, argumentation, blogs, rst
Citation:
Or Biran, Owen Rambow, "Identifying Justifications in Written Dialogs," icsc, pp.162-168, 2011 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Semantic Computing, 2011
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