Don’t Drop the Topic - The Role of the Prompt in Argument Identification in Student Writing
Yuning Ding, Marie Bexte, Andrea Horbach · 2022
In this paper, we explore the role of topic information in student essays from an argument mining perspective.We cluster a recently released corpus through topic modeling into prompts and train argument identification models on various data settings.Results show that, given the same amount of training data, promptspecific training performs better than crossprompt training.However, the advantage can be overcome by introducing large amounts of cross-prompt training data.