Semi-Automated Argumentative Analysis of Online Product Reviews
Adam Wyner, Jodi Schneider, Katie M. Atkinson, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon · Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications · 2012
Argumentation is key to understanding and evaluating many texts. The arguments in the texts must be identified; using current tools, this requires substantial work from human analysts. With a rule-based tool for semi-automatic text analysis support, we facilitate argument identification. The tool highlights potential argumentative sections of a text according to terms indicative of arguments (e.g. ‘suppose’ or ‘therefore’) and domain terminology (e.g. camera names and properties). The information can be used by an analyst to instantiate argumentation schemes and build arguments for and against a proposal. The resulting argumentation framework can then be passed to argument evaluation tools.