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We develop models to classify desirable reasoning revisions in argumentative writing. We explore two approaches – multi-task learning and transfer learning – to take advantage of auxiliary sources of revision data for similar tasks. Results of intrinsic and extrinsic evaluations show that both approaches can indeed improve classifier performance over baselines. While multi-task learning shows that training on different sources of data at the same time may improve performance, transfer-learning better represents the relationship between the data.
Supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant #173572.
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Such revisions of text content are considered more useful in revising [8].
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Afrin, T., Litman, D. (2023). Learning from Auxiliary Sources in Argumentative Revision Classification. In: Wang, N., Rebolledo-Mendez, G., Dimitrova, V., Matsuda, N., Santos, O.C. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education. Posters and Late Breaking Results, Workshops and Tutorials, Industry and Innovation Tracks, Practitioners, Doctoral Consortium and Blue Sky. AIED 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1831. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36336-8_42
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