ML Anthology

Editorial Comprehension in OpEd Through Argument Units

Sergio Alvarado, Michael G. Dyer, Margot Flowers
AAAI 1986 pp. 250-256
/aaai/1986/alvarado1986aaai-editorial/

Abstract

This paper presents a theory of reasoning and argument comprehension currently implemented in OpEd, a computer system that reads short politico-economic editorials and answers questions about the editorial contents. We believe that all arguments are composed of a fixed number of abstract argument structures, which we call Argument Units (AUs). Thus, argument comprehension is viewed in OpEd fundamentally as the process of recognizing, instantiating, and applying argument units. Here we discuss: (a) the knowledge and processes necessary to understand opinions, arguments, and issues which arise in politico-economic editorials; and (b) the relation of this research to previous work in natural language understanding. A description of OpEd and examples of its current input/output behavior are also presented in this paper.

PDF AAAI Semantic Scholar

Cite

Text

Alvarado et al. "Editorial Comprehension in OpEd Through Argument Units." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1986.

Markdown

[Alvarado et al. "Editorial Comprehension in OpEd Through Argument Units." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1986.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1986/alvarado1986aaai-editorial/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{alvarado1986aaai-editorial,
  title     = {{Editorial Comprehension in OpEd Through Argument Units}},
  author    = {Alvarado, Sergio and Dyer, Michael G. and Flowers, Margot},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {1986},
  pages     = {250-256},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1986/alvarado1986aaai-editorial/}
}