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Frequently we revise our first opinions after talking over with other individuals because we get convinced. Argumentation is a verbal and social process aimed at convincing. It includes conversation and persuasion. In this case, the…

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Financial statements contain quantitative information and manager's subjective evaluation of firm's financial status. Using information released in U.S. 10-K filings. Both qualitative and quantitative appraisals are crucial for quality…

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High quality arguments are essential elements for human reasoning and decision-making processes. However, effective argument construction is a challenging task for both human and machines. In this work, we study a novel task on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Xinyu Hua , Lu Wang

This study focused on efficient text generation using generative adversarial networks (GAN). Assuming that the goal is to generate a paragraph of a user-defined topic and sentimental tendency, conventionally the whole network has to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Chenhan Yuan , Yi-chin Huang , Cheng-Hung Tsai

Modelling users' online decision-making and opinion change is a complex issue that needs to consider users' personal determinants, the nature of the topic and the information retrieval activities. Furthermore, generative-AIbased products…

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Many news comment mining studies are based on the assumption that comment is explicitly linked to the corresponding news. In this paper, we observed that users' comments are also heavily influenced by their individual characteristics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Yuhang Wang , Yuxiang Zhang , Dongyuan Lu , Jitao Sang

The networked opinion diffusion in online social networks (OSN) is often governed by the two genres of opinions - endogenous opinions that are driven by the influence of social contacts among users, and exogenous opinions which are formed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Paramita Koley , Avirup Saha , Sourangshu Bhattacharya , Niloy Ganguly , Abir De

Human use language not just to convey information but also to express their inner feelings and mental states. In this work, we adapt the state-of-the-art language generation models to generate affective (emotional) text. We posit a model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Ishika Singh , Ahsan Barkati , Tushar Goswamy , Ashutosh Modi

We present AGGGEN (pronounced 'again'), a data-to-text model which re-introduces two explicit sentence planning stages into neural data-to-text systems: input ordering and input aggregation. In contrast to previous work using sentence…

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News website comment sections are spaces where potentially conflicting opinions and beliefs are voiced. Addressing questions of how to study such cultural and societal conflicts through technological means, the present article critically…

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Large Reasoning Models have demonstrated remarkable performance with the advancement of test-time scaling techniques, which enhances prediction accuracy by generating multiple candidate responses and selecting the most reliable answer.…

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Opinion dynamics concerns social processes through which populations or groups of individuals agree or disagree on specific issues. As such, modelling opinion dynamics represents an important research area that has been progressively…

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In Twitter, and other microblogging services, the generation of new content by the crowd is often biased towards immediacy: what is happening now. Prompted by the propagation of commentary and information through multiple mediums, users on…

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Opinion dynamics - the research field dealing with how people's opinions form and evolve in a social context - traditionally uses agent-based models to validate the implications of sociological theories. These models encode the causal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Corrado Monti , Gianmarco De Francisci Morales , Francesco Bonchi

It is time-consuming to find the best product among many similar alternatives. Comparative sentences can help to contrast one item from others in a way that highlights important features of an item that stand out. Given reviews of one or…

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Estimating the counterfactual outcome of treatment is essential for decision-making in public health and clinical science, among others. Often, treatments are administered in a sequential, time-varying manner, leading to an exponentially…

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Adopting contextually appropriate, audience-tailored linguistic styles is critical to the success of user-centric language generation systems (e.g., chatbots, computer-aided writing, dialog systems). While existing approaches demonstrate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Samraj Moorjani , Adit Krishnan , Hari Sundaram , Ewa Maslowska , Aravind Sankar

Arguments, counter-arguments, facts, and evidence obtained via documents related to previous court cases are of essential need for legal professionals. Therefore, the process of automatic information extraction from documents containing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Gathika Ratnayaka , Thejan Rupasinghe , Nisansa de Silva , Viraj Salaka Gamage , Menuka Warushavithana , Amal Shehan Perera

Automated decision support systems that are able to infer second opinions from experts can potentially facilitate a more efficient allocation of resources; they can help decide when and from whom to seek a second opinion. In this paper, we…

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