Do Differences in Values Influence Disagreements in Online Discussions?

Michiel van der Meer, Piek Vossen, Catholijn M. Jonker, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah
10/24/2023
cs.CL

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Abstract

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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Repositorio de Tesis "Inferencia automática de valores humanos y su relación con el desacuerdo en discusiones online", una replica metodologica del estudio "Do Differences in Values Influence Disagreements in Online Discussions?"

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Cite this paper

@article{meer2023differences,
  title  = {Do Differences in Values Influence Disagreements in Online Discussions?},
  author = {Michiel van der Meer and Piek Vossen and Catholijn M. Jonker and Pradeep K. Murukannaiah},
  year   = {2023},
  eprint = {2310.15757},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15757v1}
}

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