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title = "The Search for Agreement on Logical Fallacy Annotation of an Infodemic",
author = "Bonial, Claire and
Blodgett, Austin and
Hudson, Taylor and
Lukin, Stephanie M. and
Micher, Jeffrey and
Summers-Stay, Douglas and
Sutor, Peter and
Voss, Clare",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
B{\'e}chet, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric and
Blache, Philippe and
Choukri, Khalid and
Cieri, Christopher and
Declerck, Thierry and
Goggi, Sara and
Isahara, Hitoshi and
Maegaard, Bente and
Mariani, Joseph and
Mazo, H{\'e}l{\`e}ne and
Odijk, Jan and
Piperidis, Stelios",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
month = jun,
year = "2022",
address = "Marseille, France",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.471",
pages = "4430--4438",
abstract = "We evaluate an annotation schema for labeling logical fallacy types, originally developed for a crowd-sourcing annotation paradigm, now using an annotation paradigm of two trained linguist annotators. We apply the schema to a variety of different genres of text relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our linguist (as opposed to crowd-sourced) annotation of logical fallacies allows us to evaluate whether the annotation schema category labels are sufficiently clear and non-overlapping for both manual and, later, system assignment. We report inter-annotator agreement results over two annotation phases as well as a preliminary assessment of the corpus for training and testing a machine learning algorithm (Pattern-Exploiting Training) for fallacy detection and recognition. The agreement results and system performance underscore the challenging nature of this annotation task and suggest that the annotation schema and paradigm must be iteratively evaluated and refined in order to arrive at a set of annotation labels that can be reproduced by human annotators and, in turn, provide reliable training data for automatic detection and recognition systems.",
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%T The Search for Agreement on Logical Fallacy Annotation of an Infodemic
%A Bonial, Claire
%A Blodgett, Austin
%A Hudson, Taylor
%A Lukin, Stephanie M.
%A Micher, Jeffrey
%A Summers-Stay, Douglas
%A Sutor, Peter
%A Voss, Clare
%Y Calzolari, Nicoletta
%Y Béchet, Frédéric
%Y Blache, Philippe
%Y Choukri, Khalid
%Y Cieri, Christopher
%Y Declerck, Thierry
%Y Goggi, Sara
%Y Isahara, Hitoshi
%Y Maegaard, Bente
%Y Mariani, Joseph
%Y Mazo, Hélène
%Y Odijk, Jan
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%S Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
%D 2022
%8 June
%I European Language Resources Association
%C Marseille, France
%F bonial-etal-2022-search
%X We evaluate an annotation schema for labeling logical fallacy types, originally developed for a crowd-sourcing annotation paradigm, now using an annotation paradigm of two trained linguist annotators. We apply the schema to a variety of different genres of text relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our linguist (as opposed to crowd-sourced) annotation of logical fallacies allows us to evaluate whether the annotation schema category labels are sufficiently clear and non-overlapping for both manual and, later, system assignment. We report inter-annotator agreement results over two annotation phases as well as a preliminary assessment of the corpus for training and testing a machine learning algorithm (Pattern-Exploiting Training) for fallacy detection and recognition. The agreement results and system performance underscore the challenging nature of this annotation task and suggest that the annotation schema and paradigm must be iteratively evaluated and refined in order to arrive at a set of annotation labels that can be reproduced by human annotators and, in turn, provide reliable training data for automatic detection and recognition systems.
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%P 4430-4438
Markdown (Informal)
[The Search for Agreement on Logical Fallacy Annotation of an Infodemic](https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.471) (Bonial et al., LREC 2022)
ACL
- Claire Bonial, Austin Blodgett, Taylor Hudson, Stephanie M. Lukin, Jeffrey Micher, Douglas Summers-Stay, Peter Sutor, and Clare Voss. 2022. The Search for Agreement on Logical Fallacy Annotation of an Infodemic. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 4430–4438, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.