Papers by Marc Feger
BERTweet’s TACO Fiesta: Contrasting Flavors On The Path Of Inference And Information-Driven Argument Mining On Twitter (2024.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Argument mining is a challenging analytical task in the rich context of Twitter (now X). |
| Approach: | They propose to optimize the embeddings of the BERTweet transformer for argument mining on Twitter and broader generalization across topics. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves classification and generalization across topics using a siamese network and a dataset. |
Limited Generalizability in Argument Mining: State-Of-The-Art Models Learn Datasets, Not Arguments (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Identifying arguments is a prerequisite for various tasks in automated discourse analysis. |
| Approach: | They evaluate four BERT-like transformers on 17 English sentence-level datasets . they find that they tend to rely on lexical shortcuts tied to content words . |
| Outcome: | The proposed models perform best on 17 English sentence-level datasets on common tasks, but their performance drops when applied to unseen datasets. |
TACO – Twitter Arguments from COnversations (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Argument mining aims to identify the structural elements of arguments, denoted as information and inference, in online discourses. |
| Approach: | They propose to use Twitter Arguments to identify structural elements of arguments, denoted as information and inference, in a dataset that uses 1,814 tweets and an annotation framework that incorporates definitions from the Cambridge Dictionary to define and identify argument components. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset identifies arguments on Twitter and achieves an 85.06% macro F1 score in detecting arguments. |