论文标题
年轻学生对辩论性写作的探索性研究：基于变压器的方法
An Exploratory Study of Argumentative Writing by Young Students: A Transformer-based Approach
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论文摘要
我们介绍了年轻学生对论证批评写作的计算探索。中学生被要求批评在提示中提出的论点，重点是识别和解释推理缺陷。这项任务类似于既定的大学级论点批评任务。利用详细领域知识来识别大学任务的批评，但在年轻学生数据上表现不佳的词汇和话语特征。取而代之的是，基于变形金刚的建筑（例如，BERT）在大学任务的大量批评论文中进行了微调（F1分数提高20％）。对系统各种配置的性能的分析表明，虽然儿童写作没有表现出辩论性论文的标准话语结构，但它确实与更成熟的作家共享基本的本地顺序结构。
We present a computational exploration of argument critique writing by young students. Middle school students were asked to criticize an argument presented in the prompt, focusing on identifying and explaining the reasoning flaws. This task resembles an established college-level argument critique task. Lexical and discourse features that utilize detailed domain knowledge to identify critiques exist for the college task but do not perform well on the young students data. Instead, transformer-based architecture (e.g., BERT) fine-tuned on a large corpus of critique essays from the college task performs much better (over 20% improvement in F1 score). Analysis of the performance of various configurations of the system suggests that while children's writing does not exhibit the standard discourse structure of an argumentative essay, it does share basic local sequential structures with the more mature writers.
