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Motivated by this practical concern, we (1) annotate a corpus of debate comments with not only their persuasiveness scores but also the errors they contain, (2) propose an approach to persuasiveness scoring and error identification that outperforms competing baselines, and (3) show that the persuasiveness scores computed by our approach can indeed be explained by the errors it identifies.","doi":"10.24963/ijcai.2017/570","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/570","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/0570.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/570.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/bibtex/570","volume":{"slug":"2017","title":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2017","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/","year":2017,"location":"Melbourne, Australia","dates":"19-25 August 2017","editors":"Carles Sierra","isbn":"978-0-9992411-0-3","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization","doi_prefix":"10.24963/ijcai.2017"},"section":"Natural Language Processing","track":"Main track","number":570,"pages":{"first":4082,"last":4088},"keywords":["Natural Language Processing: Natural Language Processing","Natural Language Processing: Text Classification"],"videos":[],"references":[{"position":1,"raw":"[Baroni et al., 2016] Pietro Baroni, Thomas F. 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