Do Differences in Values Influence Disagreements in Online Discussions?

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Autores principales: van der Meer, Michiel, Vossen, Piek, Jonker, Catholijn M., Murukannaiah, Pradeep K.
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Publicado: 2023
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author van der Meer, Michiel
Vossen, Piek
Jonker, Catholijn M.
Murukannaiah, Pradeep K.
author_facet van der Meer, Michiel
Vossen, Piek
Jonker, Catholijn M.
Murukannaiah, Pradeep K.
contents Disagreements are common in online discussions. Disagreement may foster collaboration and improve the quality of a discussion under some conditions. Although there exist methods for recognizing disagreement, a deeper understanding of factors that influence disagreement is lacking in the literature. We investigate a hypothesis that differences in personal values are indicative of disagreement in online discussions. We show how state-of-the-art models can be used for estimating values in online discussions and how the estimated values can be aggregated into value profiles. We evaluate the estimated value profiles based on human-annotated agreement labels. We find that the dissimilarity of value profiles correlates with disagreement in specific cases. We also find that including value information in agreement prediction improves performance.
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spellingShingle Do Differences in Values Influence Disagreements in Online Discussions?
van der Meer, Michiel
Vossen, Piek
Jonker, Catholijn M.
Murukannaiah, Pradeep K.
Computation and Language
Disagreements are common in online discussions. Disagreement may foster collaboration and improve the quality of a discussion under some conditions. Although there exist methods for recognizing disagreement, a deeper understanding of factors that influence disagreement is lacking in the literature. We investigate a hypothesis that differences in personal values are indicative of disagreement in online discussions. We show how state-of-the-art models can be used for estimating values in online discussions and how the estimated values can be aggregated into value profiles. We evaluate the estimated value profiles based on human-annotated agreement labels. We find that the dissimilarity of value profiles correlates with disagreement in specific cases. We also find that including value information in agreement prediction improves performance.
title Do Differences in Values Influence Disagreements in Online Discussions?
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15757