Adding Affective Argumentation to the GenIE Assistant
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This paper presents preliminary results of an empirical study to investigate effects of adding affective argumentation to the GenIE Assistant, an implemented proof-of-concept computational model of normative biomedical argument generation. The Assistant has been implemented in the domain of genetic counseling, a domain where human writers are advised to show empathy in addition to presenting clinical arguments for the diagnosis and source of a patient’s condition.
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