ClaimRev

This repository contains the code associated with the following paper:

Learning From Revisions: Quality Assessment of Claims in Argumentation at Scale by Gabriella Skitalinskaya, Jonas Klaff, Henning Wachsmuth

Reproducing results

Models

You can download our finetuned models directly from here. Or you can finetune them as described below:

Classification

To train the bert model in a random split setup using the ClaimRev-BASE corpus:

python run_exp1_bert.py \
  --input_data './data/base.csv' \
  --pretrained_model 'bert-base-cased' \
  --batch_size 16 \
  --lr '1e-5' \
  --save_best 'True' \
  --output_dir './output/exp1_bert_random_base/' \
  --exp_setup 'random'

To train the sbert model in a random split setup using the ClaimRev-BASE corpus:

python run_exp1_sbert.py \
  --input_data './data/base.csv' \
  --pretrained_model 'bert-base-cased' \
  --batch_size 16 \
  --lr '1e-5' \
  --output_dir './output/exp1_sbert_random_base/' \
  --exp_setup 'random'

To change setup to cross-category, set the exp_setup argument to 'cc' instead of 'random'. To use ClaimRev-EXT change the input_data argument to './data/extended.csv'

Ranking

BTL ranking model (with bert and sbert accordingly):

python run_btl.py \
    --prediction_dir './output/exp1_bert_random_base/' \
    --input_data './data/base.csv' \
    --output_file 'btl_bert.txt' \
    --exp_setup 'random' \
    --model 'bert'

python run_btl.py \
    --prediction_dir './output/exp1_sbert_random_base' \
    --input_data './data/base.csv' \
    --output_file 'btl_sbert.txt' \
    --exp_setup 'random' \
    --model 'sbert'

SVMRANK ranking model (with bert and sbert embeddings accordingly):

python run_svmrank.py \
    --input_data './data/full_list.csv'\
    --pretrained_model './output/exp1_bert_random_base' \
    --emb_output_file './data/emb/bert.csv' \
    --output_file 'svm_bert_base.txt' \
    --model_type 'bert'

python run_svmrank.py \
    --input_data './data/list_full.csv'\
    --pretrained_model './output/exp1_sbert_random_base' \
    --emb_output_file './data/emb/sbert.csv' \
    --output_file 'svm_sbert_base.txt'
    --model_type 'sbert'

Before running SVMRank-related experiments, follow the instructions to installing PySVMRank as described here.

Data

In order to obtain access to the ClaimRev corpus, please reach out to Gabriella Skitalinskaya (email can be found in paper) along with your affiliation and a short description of how you will be using the data. Please let us know if you have any questions.

Citation

If you use this corpus or code in your research, please include the following citation:

@inproceedings{skitalinskaya-etal-2021-learning,
    title = "Learning From Revisions: Quality Assessment of Claims in Argumentation at Scale",
    author = "Skitalinskaya, Gabriella  and
      Klaff, Jonas  and
      Wachsmuth, Henning",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume",
    month = apr,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.147",
    pages = "1718--1729",
}