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debate2vec

Word-vectors created from a large corpus of competitive debate evidence, and data extraction / processing scripts

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About

Created from all publically available Cross Examination Competitive debate evidence posted by the community on Open Evidence (From 2013-2020)

Search through the original evidence by going to debate.cards

Stats about this corpus:

  • 222485 unique documents larger than 200 words (DebateSum plus some additional debate docs that weren't well-formed enough for inclusion into DebateSum)
  • 107555 unique words (showing up more than 10 times in the corpus)
  • 101 million total words

Stats about debate2vec vectors:

  • 300 dimensions, minimum number of appearances of a word was 10, trained for 100 epochs with lr set to 0.10 using FastText
  • lowercased (will release cased)
  • No subword information

The corpus includes the following topics

  • 2013-2014 Cuba/Mexico/Venezuela Economic Engagement
  • 2014-2015 Oceans
  • 2015-2016 Domestic Surveillance
  • 2016-2017 China
  • 2017-2018 Education
  • 2018-2019 Immigration
  • 2019-2020 Reducing Arms Sales

Other topics that this word vector model will handle extremely well

  • Philosophy (Especially Left-Wing / Post-modernist)
  • Law
  • Government
  • Politics

Initial release is of fasttext vectors without subword information. Future releases will include fine-tuned GPT-2 and other high end models as my GPU compute allows.

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