Exploring Jiu-Jitsu Argumentation for Writing Peer Review Rebuttals
Submission Type: Regular Long Paper
Submission Track: Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining
Submission Track 2: Resources and Evaluation
Keywords: Peer Reviews, Rebuttals, Attitude Roots, Jiu-Jitsu Persuasion
TL;DR: Using etstablished concepts in peer reviews, it is possible to map different reviews to clusters. These clusters can then be mapped to generic rebuttals.
Abstract: In many domains of argumentation, people’s arguments are driven by so-called attitude roots, i.e., underlying beliefs and world views, and their corresponding attitude themes. Given the strength of these latent drivers of arguments, recent work in psychology suggests that instead of directly countering surface-level reasoning (e.g., falsifying the premises), one should follow an argumentation style inspired by the Jiu-Jitsu ``soft'' combat system: first, identify an arguer's attitude roots and themes, and then choose a prototypical rebuttal that is aligned with those drivers instead of trying to invalidate those. In this work, we are the first to explore Jiu-Jitsu argumentation for peer reviews by proposing the novel task of attitude and theme-guided rebuttal generation. To this end, we enrich an existing dataset for discourse structure in peer reviews with attitude roots, attitude themes, and canonical rebuttals. To facilitate this process, we recast established annotation concepts from the domain of peer reviews (e.g., aspects a review sentence is relating to) and train domain-specific models. We then propose strong rebuttal generation strategies, which we benchmark on our novel dataset for the task of end-to-end attitude and theme-guided rebuttal generation and two subtasks.
Submission Number: 1032
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