Using Context to Predict the Purpose of Argumentative Writing Revisions

摘要

While there is increasing interest in automatically recognizing the argumentative structure of a text, recognizing the argumentative purpose of revisions to such texts has been less explored. Furthermore, existing revision clas-sification approaches typically ignore contextual information. We propose two approaches for utilizing contextual information when predicting argumentative revision purposes: developing contextual features for use in the classification paradigm of prior work, and transforming the classification problem to a sequence labeling task. Experimental results using two corpora of student essays demonstrate the utility of contextual information for predicting argumentative revision purposes.