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Active Learning for Argument Strength Estimation

23 Sep 2021EMNLP (insights) 2021 11arXiv:2109.11319archive 2025-07-28

Nataliia Kees, Michael Fromm, Evgeniy Faerman, Thomas Seidl

High-quality arguments are an essential part of decision-making. Automatically predicting the quality of an argument is a complex task that recently got much attention in argument mining. However, the annotation effort for this task is exceptionally high. Therefore, we test uncertainty-based active learning (AL) methods on two popular argument-strength data sets to estimate whether sample-efficient learning can be enabled. Our extensive empirical evaluation shows that uncertainty-based acquisition functions can not surpass the accuracy reached with the random acquisition on these data sets.

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