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Main Authors: Robbani, Irfan, Reisert, Paul, Inoue, Naoya, Pothong, Surawat, Guerraoui, Camélia, Wang, Wenzhi, Naito, Shoichi, Choi, Jungmin, Inui, Kentaro
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12402
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author Robbani, Irfan
Reisert, Paul
Inoue, Naoya
Pothong, Surawat
Guerraoui, Camélia
Wang, Wenzhi
Naito, Shoichi
Choi, Jungmin
Inui, Kentaro
author_facet Robbani, Irfan
Reisert, Paul
Inoue, Naoya
Pothong, Surawat
Guerraoui, Camélia
Wang, Wenzhi
Naito, Shoichi
Choi, Jungmin
Inui, Kentaro
contents Prior research in computational argumentation has mainly focused on scoring the quality of arguments, with less attention on explicating logical errors. In this work, we introduce four sets of explainable templates for common informal logical fallacies designed to explicate a fallacy's implicit logic. Using our templates, we conduct an annotation study on top of 400 fallacious arguments taken from LOGIC dataset and achieve a high agreement score (Krippendorf's alpha of 0.54) and reasonable coverage (0.83). Finally, we conduct an experiment for detecting the structure of fallacies and discover that state-of-the-art language models struggle with detecting fallacy templates (0.47 accuracy). To facilitate research on fallacies, we make our dataset and guidelines publicly available.
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spellingShingle Flee the Flaw: Annotating the Underlying Logic of Fallacious Arguments Through Templates and Slot-filling
Robbani, Irfan
Reisert, Paul
Inoue, Naoya
Pothong, Surawat
Guerraoui, Camélia
Wang, Wenzhi
Naito, Shoichi
Choi, Jungmin
Inui, Kentaro
Computation and Language
Prior research in computational argumentation has mainly focused on scoring the quality of arguments, with less attention on explicating logical errors. In this work, we introduce four sets of explainable templates for common informal logical fallacies designed to explicate a fallacy's implicit logic. Using our templates, we conduct an annotation study on top of 400 fallacious arguments taken from LOGIC dataset and achieve a high agreement score (Krippendorf's alpha of 0.54) and reasonable coverage (0.83). Finally, we conduct an experiment for detecting the structure of fallacies and discover that state-of-the-art language models struggle with detecting fallacy templates (0.47 accuracy). To facilitate research on fallacies, we make our dataset and guidelines publicly available.
title Flee the Flaw: Annotating the Underlying Logic of Fallacious Arguments Through Templates and Slot-filling
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12402