Challenge: Existing research on predicting argument quality based on subjective assessments of human annotators ignores this limitation.
Approach: They propose to compare different revisions of the same claim to assess their quality . they use logistic regression and transformer-based neural networks to learn quality indicators .
Outcome: The proposed tasks show that the learned indicators generalize well across topics.

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