Epicurus at SemEval-2023 Task 4: Improving Prediction of Human Values behind Arguments by Leveraging Their Definitions

Christian Fang, Qixiang Fang, Dong Nguyen

The 17th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2023) Task 4: valueeval: identification of human values behind arguments Paper

TLDR: We describe our experiments for SemEval-2023 Task 4 on the identification of human values behind arguments (ValueEval). Because human values are subjective concepts which require precise definitions, we hypothesize that incorporating the definitions of human values (in the form of annotation instruc
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Abstract: We describe our experiments for SemEval-2023 Task 4 on the identification of human values behind arguments (ValueEval). Because human values are subjective concepts which require precise definitions, we hypothesize that incorporating the definitions of human values (in the form of annotation instructions and validated survey items) during model training can yield better prediction performance. We explore this idea and show that our proposed models perform better than the challenge organizers' baselines, with improvements in macro F1 scores of up to 18\%.