MAFALDA: A Benchmark and Comprehensive Study of Fallacy Detection and Classification

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Main Authors: Helwe, Chadi, Calamai, Tom, Paris, Pierre-Henri, Clavel, Chloé, Suchanek, Fabian
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Published: 2023
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author Helwe, Chadi
Calamai, Tom
Paris, Pierre-Henri
Clavel, Chloé
Suchanek, Fabian
author_facet Helwe, Chadi
Calamai, Tom
Paris, Pierre-Henri
Clavel, Chloé
Suchanek, Fabian
contents We introduce MAFALDA, a benchmark for fallacy classification that merges and unites previous fallacy datasets. It comes with a taxonomy that aligns, refines, and unifies existing classifications of fallacies. We further provide a manual annotation of a part of the dataset together with manual explanations for each annotation. We propose a new annotation scheme tailored for subjective NLP tasks, and a new evaluation method designed to handle subjectivity. We then evaluate several language models under a zero-shot learning setting and human performances on MAFALDA to assess their capability to detect and classify fallacies.
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spellingShingle MAFALDA: A Benchmark and Comprehensive Study of Fallacy Detection and Classification
Helwe, Chadi
Calamai, Tom
Paris, Pierre-Henri
Clavel, Chloé
Suchanek, Fabian
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
We introduce MAFALDA, a benchmark for fallacy classification that merges and unites previous fallacy datasets. It comes with a taxonomy that aligns, refines, and unifies existing classifications of fallacies. We further provide a manual annotation of a part of the dataset together with manual explanations for each annotation. We propose a new annotation scheme tailored for subjective NLP tasks, and a new evaluation method designed to handle subjectivity. We then evaluate several language models under a zero-shot learning setting and human performances on MAFALDA to assess their capability to detect and classify fallacies.
title MAFALDA: A Benchmark and Comprehensive Study of Fallacy Detection and Classification
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09761