An Item Response Theory Framework for Persuasion

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Paper Link: https://openreview.net/forum?id=KYN77EtH81a

Paper Type: Long paper (up to eight pages of content + unlimited references and appendices)

Abstract: In this paper, we apply Item Response Theory, popular in education and political science research, to the analysis of argument persuasiveness in language. We empirically evaluate the model's performance on three datasets, including a novel dataset in the area of political advocacy. We show the advantages of separating these components under several style and content representations, including evaluating the ability of the speaker embeddings generated by the model to parallel real-world observations about persuadability.

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