Moral Values in Moral Maze Programme

Moral Maze corpora consist of transcripts of discussions on the Moral Maze Radio 4 programme where panellists explore various moral and ethical dilemmas (Budzynska et al. 2015). For the purpose of our study, we have selected five discussions that exemplify domain diversity and uphold data quality: British Empire, DDay, Morality of Money, Morality of Hypocrisy, and Welfare State. The corpora have been previously annotated with pro- and con-arguments according to Inference Anchoring Theory. We applied moral foundation detection processes for subsequent analysis. In this study, we decided to utilise the Moral Foundation Dictionary, which offers a list of words associated with five primary moral foundation categories that are suitable for our research purposes. Reference: Landowska, A., Budzynska, K., & Zhang, H. (2024). Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Moral Foundations in Argumentation. Argumentation, 38(3), 405-434. Acknowledgement: We would like to acknowledge that the work reported in this paper has been supported in part by the Polish National Science Centre, Poland (Chist-Era IV) under grant 2022/04/Y/ST6/00001 and in part by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 860621.