Project debater was ranked more highly by audiences and close to that of a human expert, but not without some limitations. Sometimes she found it difficult to make an argument flow like a real human does. And not too surprisingly, she kind of argued like a machine with lots of facts and figures and not as much emotion as a human debate. But whether or not project debater is better or worse than a human, it's a big step for the field finding arguments in human written text.
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