README.md

🆚 Stance-Aware Re-Ranking for Non-factual Comparative Queries

Code and resources to reproduce the ArgMining 2023 paper Stance-Aware Re-Ranking for Non-factual Comparative Queries.

Usage

The following sections describe how to use our code to re-rank comparative search engine results, using Pipenv.

Installation

1. Install Python 3.10
2. Create and activate virtual environment:

   python3.10 -m venv venv/
   source venv/bin/activate

3. Install dependencies:

   pip install -e .

Re-rank and evaluate all run files

To evaluate the re-ranking pipeline on all runs and all topics, follow these steps:

1. Modify the configuration in config.yml
2. Run the stare module:

   python -m stare

Testing

After installing all dependencies, you can run all unit tests:

flake8 stare
pylint stare
pytest stare

License

This repository is licensed under the MIT License. The data (in the data/ directory) may be released under different terms and conditions.