{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Emotions in Argumentation: an Empirical Evaluation","authors":[{"name":"M. Sahbi Benlamine","slug":"m-sahbi-benlamine","given":"M. Sahbi","family":"Benlamine","affiliation":""},{"name":"Maher Chaouachi","slug":"maher-chaouachi","given":"Maher","family":"Chaouachi","affiliation":""},{"name":"Serena Villata","slug":"serena-villata","given":"Serena","family":"Villata","affiliation":""},{"name":"Elena Cabrio","slug":"elena-cabrio","given":"Elena","family":"Cabrio","affiliation":""},{"name":"Claude Frasson","slug":"claude-frasson","given":"Claude","family":"Frasson","affiliation":""},{"name":"Fabien Gandon","slug":"fabien-gandon","given":"Fabien","family":"Gandon","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"Argumentation is often seen as a mechanism to support different forms of reasoning such that decision-making and persuasion, but all these approaches assume a purely rational behavior of the involved actors. However, humans are proved to behave differently, mixing rational and emotional attitudes to guide their actions, and it has been claimed that there exists a strong connection between the argumentation process and the emotions felt by people involved in such process. In this paper, we assess this claim by means of an experiment: during several debates people's argumentation in plain English is connected and compared to the emotions automatically detected from the participants. Our results show a correspondence between emotions and argumentation elements, e.g., when in the argumentation two opposite opinions are conflicting this is reflected in a negative way on the debaters' emotions.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/29","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/0029.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/29.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/bibtex/29","volume":{"slug":"2015","title":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2015","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/","year":2015,"location":"Buenos Aires, Argentina","dates":"25–31 July 2015","editors":"Qiang Yang and Michael Wooldridge","isbn":"978-1-57735-738-4","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Artificial Intelligence and Social Sciences","track":"Main Track","number":29,"pages":{"first":156,"last":162},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}