Unsupervised corpus–wide claim detection
Ran Levy, Shai Gretz, Benjamin Sznajder, Shay Hummel, Ranit Aharonov, Noam Slonim · 2017
Automatic claim detection is a fundamental argument mining task that aims to automatically mine claims regarding a topic of consideration.Previous works on mining argumentative content have assumed that a set of relevant documents is given in advance.Here, we present a first corpuswide claim detection framework, that can be directly applied to massive corpora.Using simple and intuitive empirical observations, we derive a claim sentence query by which we are able to directly retrieve sentences in which the prior probability to include topic-relevant claims is greatly enhanced.Next, we employ simple heuristics to rank the sentences, leading to an unsupervised corpus-wide claim detection system, with precision that outperforms previously reported results on the task of claim detection given relevant documents and labeled data.