no code implementations • COLING (PEOPLES) 2020 • Roxanne El Baff, Khalid Al Khatib, Benno Stein, Henning Wachsmuth
News editorials aim to shape the opinions of their readership and the general public on timely controversial issues.
1 code implementation • 2 Feb 2024 • Kai Konen, Sophie Jentzsch, Diaoulé Diallo, Peer Schütt, Oliver Bensch, Roxanne El Baff, Dominik Opitz, Tobias Hecking
This research explores strategies for steering the output of large language models (LLMs) towards specific styles, such as sentiment, emotion, or writing style, by adding style vectors to the activations of hidden layers during text generation.
1 code implementation • ACL 2022 • Milad Alshomary, Roxanne El Baff, Timon Gurcke, Henning Wachsmuth
An audience's prior beliefs and morals are strong indicators of how likely they will be affected by a given argument.
no code implementations • COLING 2020 • Shahbaz Syed, Roxanne El Baff, Johannes Kiesel, Khalid Al Khatib, Benno Stein, Martin Potthast
With Webis-EditorialSum-2020, we present a corpus of 1330 carefully curated summaries for 266 news editorials.
no code implementations • ACL 2020 • Roxanne El Baff, Henning Wachsmuth, Khalid Al Khatib, Benno Stein
News editorials argue about political issues in order to challenge or reinforce the stance of readers with different ideologies.
no code implementations • WS 2019 • Roxanne El Baff, Henning Wachsmuth, Khalid Al Khatib, Manfred Stede, Benno Stein
Synthesis approaches in computational argumentation so far are restricted to generating claim-like argument units or short summaries of debates.
no code implementations • CONLL 2018 • Roxanne El Baff, Henning Wachsmuth, Khalid Al-Khatib, Benno Stein
Analyzing the corpus, we find that annotators with different orientation disagree on the effect significantly.
no code implementations • COLING 2018 • Henning Wachsmuth, Manfred Stede, Roxanne El Baff, Khalid Al-Khatib, Maria Skeppstedt, Benno Stein
In this paper, we model rhetorical strategies for the computational synthesis of effective argumentation.