Challenge: Argumentation is a key competence and an important cultural technique in democratic societies.
Approach: They propose to create domain-specific datasets and methods to assess argument quality.
Outcome: The proposed methods address gaps in the literature and aid future research in the domain.

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Challenge: Existing research on predicting argument quality based on subjective assessments of human annotators ignores this limitation.
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Challenge: a tutorial on argument quality assessment will focus on what makes an argument good or bad . argument quality is a field encompassing varying tasks on the automated analysis and synthesis of natural language arguments.
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Challenge: Existing datasets in argument quality detection lack quality, quantity and diversity of topics and arguments.
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