We are planning to develop argumentative dialogue systems that can discuss various topics with people by using large-scale argumentation structures. In this paper, we describe the creation process of these argumentation structures. We created ten structures each having more than 2000 nodes of five topics in English and five topics in Japanese. We analyzed the created structures for their characteristics and investigated the differences between the two languages. We conducted an evaluation experiment to ascertain that the structures can be applied to dialogue systems. We conducted another experiment to use the created argumentation structures as training data for augmenting the current argumentation structures.
@InProceedings{SAKAI18.719, author = {Kazuki Sakai and Akari Inago and Ryuichiro Higashinaka and Yuichiro Yoshikawa and Hiroshi Ishiguro and Junji Tomita}, title = "{Creating Large-Scale Argumentation Structures for Dialogue Systems}", booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {May 7-12, 2018}, address = {Miyazaki, Japan}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference chair) and Khalid Choukri and Christopher Cieri and Thierry Declerck and Sara Goggi and Koiti Hasida and Hitoshi Isahara and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Hélène Mazo and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis and Takenobu Tokunaga}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {979-10-95546-00-9}, language = {english} }
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