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Conversational flow in Oxford-style debates

arXiv 1604.03114 ↗First posted 11 Apr 2016cs.CL cs.AI cs.SIcited by 25

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Abstract (arXiv)

Public debates are a common platform for presenting and juxtaposing diverging views on important issues. In this work we propose a methodology for tracking how ideas flow between participants throughout a debate. We use this approach in a case study of Oxford-style debates---a competitive format where the winner is determined by audience votes---and show how the outcome of a debate depends on aspects of conversational flow. In particular, we find that winners tend to make better use of a debate's interactive component than losers, by actively pursuing their opponents' points rather than promoting their own ideas over the course of the conversation.

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  10. 2026Evaluating LLM-Simulated Conversations in Modeling Inconsistent and Uncollaborative Behaviors in Human Social Interactioncited by 0
  11. 2026CIG: Measuring Conversational Information Gain in Deliberative Dialogues with Semantic Memory Dynamicscited by 0
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