{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/before-name-calling-dynamics-and-triggers-of","title":"Before Name-calling: Dynamics and Triggers of Ad Hominem Fallacies in Web Argumentation","arxiv_id":"1802.06613","date":"2018-02-19","proceeding":"NAACL 2018 6","authors":["Ivan Habernal","Henning Wachsmuth","Iryna Gurevych","Benno Stein"],"abstract":"Arguing without committing a fallacy is one of the main requirements of an\nideal debate. But even when debating rules are strictly enforced and fallacious\narguments punished, arguers often lapse into attacking the opponent by an ad\nhominem argument. As existing research lacks solid empirical investigation of\nthe typology of ad hominem arguments as well as their potential causes, this\npaper fills this gap by (1) performing several large-scale annotation studies,\n(2) experimenting with various neural architectures and validating our working\nhypotheses, such as controversy or reasonableness, and (3) providing linguistic\ninsights into triggers of ad hominem using explainable neural network\narchitectures.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1802.06613v2","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.06613v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"before-name-calling-dynamics-and-triggers-of","repo_url":"https://github.com/UKPLab/naacl2018-before-name-calling-habernal-et-al","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"tf","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1802.06613","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}