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 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 …

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 …

In this paper, we analyze comparative questions and answers. At least 3%~ of the questions
submitted to search engines are comparative; ranging from simple facts like" Did Messi or …

Claim detection and verification are crucial for news understanding and have emerged as
promising technologies for mitigating misinformation and disinformation in the news …

To tackle the challenge of accurate and timely communication regarding the COVID-19
pandemic, we present a COVID-19 Claim Radar to automatically extract supporting and …

Presenting high-level arguments is a crucial task for fostering participation in online societal
discussions. Current argument summarization approaches miss an important facet of this …

Claim detection and verification are crucial for news understanding and have emerged as
promising technologies for mitigating misinformation in news. However, most existing work …

With hate speech spreading rapidly online, it is increasingly important to respond
automatically. However, there are some critical limitations in developing systems which …

The COVID-19 pandemic has made a huge global impact and cost millions of lives. As
COVID-19 vaccines were rolled out, they were quickly met with widespread hesitancy. To …