You are holding in your hands… oh, come on, who holds books like this in their hands
anymore? Anyway, you are reading this, and it means that I have managed to release one of …

The advantages offered by natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning
enable students to receive automated feedback on their argumentation skills, independent …

This paper is a condensed report on Touché: the first shared task on argument retrieval that
was held at CLEF 2020. With the goal to create a collaborative platform for research in …

This paper is a condensed report on the second year of the Touché shared task on
argument retrieval held at CLEF 2021. With the goal to provide a collaborative platform for …

This literature review focuses on the use of Natural Language Generation (NLG) to
automatically detect and generate persuasive texts. Extending previous research on …

This paper is a condensed report on the third year of the Touché lab on argument retrieval
held at CLEF 2022. With the goal to foster and support the development of technologies for …

Multilingual transformer models like mBERT and XLM-RoBERTa have obtained great
improvements for many NLP tasks on a variety of languages. However, recent works also …

The zero-shot effectiveness of neural retrieval models is often evaluated on the BEIR
benchmark---a combination of different IR evaluation datasets. Interestingly, previous …

We present the design and evaluation of a web-based intelligent writing assistant that helps
students recognize their revisions of argumentative essays. To understand how our revision …

This paper is a condensed overview of Touché: the fourth edition of the lab on argument and
causal retrieval that was held at CLEF 2023. With the goal to create a collaborative platform …