Fatima Alkhawaldeh, Tommy Yuan and Dimitar Kazakov, University of York, UK

Consideration of multiple viewpoints on a contentious issue is critical for avoiding bias and assisting in the formulation of rational decisions. We observe that the current model imposes a constraint on diversity. This is because the conventional attention mechanism is biased toward a single semantic aspect of the claim, whereas the claim may contain multiple semantic aspects. Additionally, disregarding common-sense knowledge may result in generating perspectives that violate known facts about the world. The proposed approach is divided into two stages: the first stage considers multiple semantic aspects, which results in more diverse generated perspectives; the second stage improves the quality of generated perspectives by incorporating common-sense knowledge. We train the model on each stage using reinforcement learning and automated metric scores. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed model in generating a broader range of perspectives on a contentious subject.

Perspective generation, diversity, quality, common-sense and Multi-Head Attention Mechanism.