Papers with Argument Mining
Advances in Debating Technologies: Building AI That Can Debate Humans (2021.acl-tutorials)
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| Challenge: | This tutorial focuses on Debating Technologies, a sub-field of computational argumentation defined as "computational technologies developed directly to enhance, support, and engage with human debating" the tutorial provides a holistic view of a debated system, and discusses practical applications and future challenges of debation technologies. |
| Approach: | They present a tutorial on Debating Technologies, a sub-field of computational argumentation . they introduce Project Debater, which is the first AI system to debate human experts . |
| Outcome: | The project Debater is the first AI system to debate human experts on complex topics. |
Before Name-Calling: Dynamics and Triggers of Ad Hominem Fallacies in Web Argumentation (N18-1)
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| Challenge: | Existing research lacks solid empirical investigation of typology of ad hominem arguments and their potential causes. |
| Approach: | They propose to perform several large-scale annotation studies and experiment with various neural architectures to validate hypotheses such as controversy or reasonableness. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model identifies the ad hominem fallacy and its possible causes using explainable neural network architectures. |
Open-Mindedness and Style Coordination in Argumentative Discussions (2021.eacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Previous research has shown that linguistic accommodation correlates with gaps in the power and status of the speakers and the way it promotes approval and discussion efficiency. |
| Approach: | They propose a novel perspective on linguistic accommodation, exploring its correlation with the open-mindedness of a speaker, rather than to her social status. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves the open-mindedness of a speaker and lowers discussion efficiency. |
Annotating Arguments in a Corpus of Opinion Articles (2022.lrec-1)
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Gil Rocha, Luís Trigo, Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Rui Sousa-Silva, Paula Carvalho, Bruno Martins, Miguel Won
| Challenge: | Argument annotation is the process of exposing and justifying one's points of view, with the aim of conveying a logical reasoning through a set of semantically related propositions. |
| Approach: | They propose to use argumentative discourse units to annotate arguments in Portuguese using a multi-layered process to analyze the annotations produced. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model exploits the best practices identified in previous studies while fostering the potential use of the resulting annotated corpus for new purposes. |
Analyzing the Persuasive Effect of Style in News Editorial Argumentation (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing research has investigated the persuasive effect of content and style on argumentative content. |
| Approach: | They compare the style of news editorials with ideology-specific effect annotations to find out how important it is to achieve persuasiveness. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method shows that conservative readers are resistant to style on liberal editorials, whereas conservative readers resist style on conservatives. |
TRopBank: Turkish PropBank V2.0 (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | PropBank is a hand-annotated corpus of propositions used to obtain predicate-argument information of a language. |
| Approach: | They present TRopBank "Turkish PropBank v2.0" which is a hand-annotated corpus of propositions . it is used to obtain the predicate-argument information of a language . |
| Outcome: | The proposed annotations provide the predicate-argument information of a language . the proposed annotation is based on the annotations of 17.673 verbs in Turkish . |
CEAMC: Corpus and Empirical Study of Argument Analysis in Education via LLMs (2024.findings-emnlp)
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Yupei Ren, Hongyi Wu, Zhaoguang Long, Shangqing Zhao, Xinyi Zhou, Zheqin Yin, Xinlin Zhuang, Xiaopeng Bai, Man Lan
| Challenge: | Existing argument component classifications in education are simplistic and isolated, failing to capture the complete argument information. |
| Approach: | They propose to annotate a manually annotated argument component classification dataset from authentic examination settings and to explore the performance of Large Language Models on CEAMC. |
| Outcome: | The proposed dataset can be used to analyze argumentative essays in education. |
Towards Comprehensive Argument Analysis in Education: Dataset, Tasks, and Method (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing research on argument mining has proposed various argument annotation schemes and tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework comprising 14 fine-grained relation types to capture the interplay between argument components for a thorough understanding of argument structure. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework captures the interplay between argument components for a thorough understanding of argument structure. |
Exploring the Role of Argument Structure in Online Debate Persuasion (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing work in NLP has shown that linguistic features extracted from debate text and features encoding the characteristics of the audience are both critical in persuasion studies. |
| Approach: | They propose to incorporate argument structure features into an LSTM-based model to assess the persuasiveness of debates. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model incorporates argument structure features to predict debaters that make the most convincing arguments on online debate forums. |
Lemmatising Verbs in Middle English Corpora: The Benefit of Enriching the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English 2 (PPCME2), the Parsed Corpus of Middle English Poetry (PCMEP), and A Parsed Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English (PLAEME) (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Using the lemmatisation of three annotated corpora of Middle English, we hypothesize that verbs copied from Old French favoured and produced grammatical changes in ME . instead of using the more traditional and more problematic term 'borrowing' we use Johanson's term . copying allows for the non-identicality of original and copied material. |
| Approach: | They propose to lemmatise the Penn-Helsinki Parsed Corpus of Middle English 2 (PPCME2), the Parsed corpus of middle english poetry (PCMEP) and A Parsed Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English (PLAEME) they hypothesize that verbs copied from Old French favoured and produced grammatical changes in ME . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves accuracy and recall of the annotated corpus of Middle English and the PLAEME. |
When Argumentation Meets Cohesion: Enhancing Automatic Feedback in Student Writing (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Argumentative essays require a high degree of cohesion, defined as a network of semantic relationships that link together. |
| Approach: | They investigate the role of arguments in the automatic scoring of cohesion in argumentative essays. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves on a multi-task learning process by adding argumentative elements as an auxiliary task. |