Extraction of the Argument Structure of Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly Minutes: Segmentation of Question-and-Answer Sets

Keiichi Takamaru, Yasutomo Kimura, Hideyuki Shibuki, Hokuto Ototake, Yuzu Uchida, Kotaro Sakamoto, Madoka Ishioroshi, Teruko Mitamura, Noriko Kando


Abstract
In this study, we construct a corpus of Japanese local assembly minutes. All speeches in an assembly were transcribed into a local assembly minutes based on the local autonomy law. Therefore, the local assembly minutes form an extremely large amount of text data. Our ultimate objectives were to summarize and present the arguments in the assemblies, and to use the minutes as primary information for arguments in local politics. To achieve this, we structured all statements in assembly minutes. We focused on the structure of the discussion, i.e., the extraction of question and answer pairs. We organized the shared task “QA Lab-PoliInfo” in NTCIR 14. We conducted a “segmentation task” to identify the scope of one question and answer in the minutes as a sub task of the shared task. For the segmentation task, 24 runs from five teams were submitted. Based on the obtained results, the best recall was 1.000, best precision was 0.940, and best F-measure was 0.895.
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2020.lrec-1.253
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Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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May
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2020
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Marseille, France
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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European Language Resources Association
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2064–2068
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English
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Keiichi Takamaru, Yasutomo Kimura, Hideyuki Shibuki, Hokuto Ototake, Yuzu Uchida, Kotaro Sakamoto, Madoka Ishioroshi, Teruko Mitamura, and Noriko Kando. 2020. Extraction of the Argument Structure of Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly Minutes: Segmentation of Question-and-Answer Sets. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 2064–2068, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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Extraction of the Argument Structure of Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly Minutes: Segmentation of Question-and-Answer Sets (Takamaru et al., LREC 2020)
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