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And That's A Fact: Distinguishing Factual and Emotional Argumentation in Online Dialogue

09/15/2017
by   Shereen Oraby, et al.
THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
University of California Santa Cruz
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We investigate the characteristics of factual and emotional argumentation styles observed in online debates. Using an annotated set of "factual" and "feeling" debate forum posts, we extract patterns that are highly correlated with factual and emotional arguments, and then apply a bootstrapping methodology to find new patterns in a larger pool of unannotated forum posts. This process automatically produces a large set of patterns representing linguistic expressions that are highly correlated with factual and emotional language. Finally, we analyze the most discriminating patterns to better understand the defining characteristics of factual and emotional arguments.

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