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APE: Argument Pair Extraction from Peer Review and Rebuttal via Multi-task Learning

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Cheng, Liying, Bing, Lidong, Yu, Qian, Lu, Wei, Si, Luo·2020·Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)

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Peer review and rebuttal, with rich interactions and argumentative discussions in between, are naturally a good resource to mine arguments.However, few works study both of them simultaneously.In this paper, we introduce a new argument pair extraction (APE) task on peer review and rebuttal in order to study the contents, the structure and the connections between them.We prepare a challenging dataset that contains 4,764 fully annotated review-rebuttal passage pairs from an open review platform to facilitate the study of this task.To automatically detect argumentative propositions and extract argument pairs from this corpus, we cast it as the combination of a sequence labeling task and a text relation classification task.Thus, we propose a multitask learning framework based on hierarchical LSTM networks.Extensive experiments and analysis demonstrate the effectiveness of our multi-task framework, and also show the challenges of the new task as well as motivate future research directions. 1

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    “Work on review-rebuttal interaction shows that reviewer comments often initiate exchanges in which authors clarify evidence, defend methodological choices, or revise claims (Cheng et al., 2020;D'Arcy et al., 2024).”

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  1. Tomas Mikolov, Ilya Sutskever, Kai Chen, Greg S Cor- rado, and Jeff Dean. 2013. Distributed representa- tions of words and phrases and their compositional- ity. In Proceedings of NIPS.
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Authors
Cheng, L., Bing, L., Yu, Q., Lu, W., & Si, L.
Affiliations
  • Singapore University of Technology and Design (SG)
  • Alibaba Group (Cayman Islands) (KY)
  • Chinese University of Hong Kong (HK)
Venue
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
Published
2020
Pages
7000-7011
OpenAlex
W3103553006
Cited by
58
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38
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 2
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4.01
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conference paper
Language
en
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cc-by
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Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
Keywords
peer review, rebuttal, argument mining, multi-task learning, hierarchical LSTM, sequence labeling

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