Argumentation

AbstractThis paper describes an annotation scheme for argumentation in opinionated texts such as newspaper editorials, developed from a corpus of approximately 500 English texts from Nepali and international newspaper sources. …...

This paper presents a study on the role of discourse markers in argumentative dis- course. We annotated a German cor- pus with arguments according to the com- mon claim-premise model …...

AbstractSeveral approaches have been proposed to model either the explicit sequential structure of an argumentative text or its implicit hierarchical structure. So far, the adequacy of these models of overall …...

AbstractReasoning is a crucial part of natural language argumentation. In order to comprehend an argument, we have to reconstruct and analyze its reasoning. In this task, given a natural language …...

AbstractThe study of argumentation and the development of argument mining tools depends on the availability of annotated data, which is challenging to obtain in sufficient quantity and quality. We present …...

AbstractResearch in the social sciences and psychology has shown that the persuasiveness of an argument depends not only the language employed, but also on attributes of the source/communicator, the audience, …...

AbstractArgumentation accommodates various rhetorical devices, such as questions, reported speech, and imperatives. These rhetorical tools usually assert argumentatively relevant propositions rather implicitly, so understanding their true meaning is key to …...

AbstractThis paper introduces TIARA, a new publicly available web-based annotation tool for discourse relations and sentence reordering. Annotation tasks such as these, which are based on relations between large textual …...

Argumentation is an important tool within hu- man interaction, not only in law and politics but also for discussing issues, expressing and exchanging opinions and coming to decisions in our …...

Argumentation exposes individuals to conflict- ing viewpoints and can help them make more informed decisions based on the pros and cons of a particular issue. While recent studies of ar- …...

AbstractIn dialogue analysis, characterising named entities in the domain of interest is relevant in order to understand how people are making use of them for argumentation purposes. The movie recommendation …...

AbstractHumans are storytellers, even in communication scenarios which are assumed to be more rationality-oriented, such as argumentation. Indeed, supporting arguments with narratives or personal experiences (henceforth, stories) is a very …...