An Issue Selection Method to Collect Sentences for Construction of an Argument in Debate

Abstract

This paper presents an issue selection method to collect sentences for construction of an argument in debate using AI. The sentences that can be used to construct an argument are collected from a database using the query words extracted from a given motion. One problem in collecting sentences is that the collected sentences contain sentences concerning the motion from various issues; for example, some sentence support/oppose to the motion from viewpoint of health, and an another from environment. This paper presents an issue selection method aiming to collect sentences consistently support/oppose to the motion from some fixed viewpoint.