Uncovering Implicit Inferences for Improved Relational Argument Mining (2023.eacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Argument mining attempts to extract arguments and their structure from unstructured texts. |
| Approach: | They propose a generative neuro-symbolic approach to finding inference chains that connect argument pairs by using the Commonsense Transformer. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms the state-of-the-art by 2-5% in F1 score on three datasets. |
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