Argue with me tersely: Towards sentence-level counter-argument generation

J Lin, R Ye, M Han, Q Zhang, R Lai, X Zhang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Counter-argument generation--a captivating area in computational linguistics--seeks to craft
statements that offer opposing views. While most research has ventured into paragraph …

Is Safer Better? The Impact of Guardrails on the Argumentative Strength of LLMs in Hate Speech Countering

H Bonaldi, G Damo, NB Ocampo, E Cabrio… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The potential effectiveness of counterspeech as a hate speech mitigation strategy is
attracting increasing interest in the NLG research community, particularly towards the task of …

NLP for Counterspeech against Hate: A Survey and How-To Guide

H Bonaldi, YL Chung, G Abercrombie… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In recent years, counterspeech has emerged as one of the most promising strategies to fight
online hate. These non-escalatory responses tackle online abuse while preserving the …

AMERICANO: Argument Generation with Discourse-driven Decomposition and Agent Interaction

Z Hu, HP Chan, Y Yin - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.20352, 2023 - arxiv.org
Argument generation is a challenging task in natural language processing, which requires
rigorous reasoning and proper content organization. Inspired by recent chain-of-thought …

ConQRet: Benchmarking Fine-Grained Evaluation of Retrieval Augmented Argumentation with LLM Judges

KD Dhole, K Shu, E Agichtein - arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.05206, 2024 - arxiv.org
Computational argumentation, which involves generating answers or summaries for
controversial topics like abortion bans and vaccination, has become increasingly important …

Decomposing argumentative essay generation via dialectical planning of complex reasoning

Y He, J Bao, Y Sun, B Liang, M Yang… - Findings of the …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
Abstract Argumentative Essay Generation (AEG) is a challenging task in computational
argumentation, where detailed logical reasoning and effective rhetorical skills are essential …

Evaluating Unsupervised Argument Aligners via Generation of Conclusions of Structured Scientific Abstracts

Y Gao, N Gu, J Lam, J Henderson… - Proceedings of the 18th …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
Scientific abstracts provide a concise summary of research findings, making them a valuable
resource for extracting scientific arguments. In this study, we assess various unsupervised …

[HTML][HTML] A Comparison-Based Framework for Argument Quality Assessment

J Bao, B Jin, Y Sun, Y Zhang, Y He, R Xu - Electronics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Assessing the quality of arguments is both valuable and challenging. Humans often find that
making pairwise comparisons between a target argument and several reference arguments …

Overview of AI-Debater 2023: The Challenges of Argument Generation Tasks

J Lin, G Chen, B Jin, C Li, S Jia, W Lin, Y Sun… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this paper we present the results of the AI-Debater 2023 Challenge held by the Chinese
Conference on Affect Computing (CCAC 2023), and introduce the related datasets. We …

Enhancing Argumentative Relation Classification by Multi-Granularity Retrieval and Heterogeneous Graph Reasoning

C Yang, J Bao, B Liang, RF Xu - ICASSP 2024-2024 IEEE …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Argumentative relation classification (ARC) aims to identify the relation between arguments.
Previous methods that employ structured knowledge graphs to tackle the ARC task have …