3 papers
cs.CL2020
Out of the Echo Chamber: Detecting Countering Debate Speeches
Matan Orbach, Yonatan Bilu, Assaf Toledo +4
An educated and informed consumption of media content has become a challenge in modern times. With the shift from traditional news outlets to social media and similar venues, a maj…
cs.CL2019
A Dataset of General-Purpose Rebuttal
Matan Orbach, Yonatan Bilu, Ariel Gera +8
In Natural Language Understanding, the task of response generation is usually focused on responses to short texts, such as tweets or a turn in a dialog. Here we present a novel tas…
cs.CL2019
Towards Effective Rebuttal: Listening Comprehension using Corpus-Wide Claim Mining
Tamar Lavee, Matan Orbach, Lili Kotlerman +8
Engaging in a live debate requires, among other things, the ability to effectively rebut arguments claimed by your opponent. In particular, this requires identifying these argument…