LRL_NC at SemEval-2023 Task 4: The Touche23-George-boole Approach for Multi-Label Classification of Human-Values behind Arguments

Kushagri Tandon, Niladri Chatterjee


Abstract
The task ValueEval aims at assigning a sub- set of possible human value categories under- lying a given argument. Values behind argu- ments are often determinants to evaluate the relevance and importance of decisions in eth- ical sense, thereby making them essential for argument mining. The work presented here proposes two systems for the same. Both sys- tems use RoBERTa to encode sentences in each document. System1 makes use of features ob- tained from training models for two auxiliary tasks, whereas System2 combines RoBERTa with topic modeling to get sentence represen- tation. These features are used by a classifi- cation head to generate predictions. System1 secured the rank 22 in the official task rank- ing, achieving the macro F1-score 0.46 on the main dataset. System2 was not a part of official evaluation. Subsequent experiments achieved highest (among the proposed systems) macro F1-scores of 0.48 (System2), 0.31 (ablation on System1) and 0.33 (ablation on System1) on the main dataset, the Nahj al-Balagha dataset, and the New York Times dataset.
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2023.semeval-1.19
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Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023)
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July
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2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Atul Kr. Ojha, A. Seza Doğruöz, Giovanni Da San Martino, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Ritesh Kumar, Elisa Sartori
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SemEval
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SIGLEX
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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136–142
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.semeval-1.19
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.semeval-1.19
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Kushagri Tandon and Niladri Chatterjee. 2023. LRL_NC at SemEval-2023 Task 4: The Touche23-George-boole Approach for Multi-Label Classification of Human-Values behind Arguments. In Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023), pages 136–142, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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LRL_NC at SemEval-2023 Task 4: The Touche23-George-boole Approach for Multi-Label Classification of Human-Values behind Arguments (Tandon & Chatterjee, SemEval 2023)
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