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 …

Adverse phenomena such as the search engine manipulation effect (SEME), where web
search users change their attitude on a topic following whatever most highly-ranked search …

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 …

Product question answering (PQA), aiming to automatically provide instant responses to
customer's questions in E-Commerce platforms, has drawn increasing attention in recent …

Comparative reasoning is a process of comparing objects, concepts, or entities to draw
conclusions, which constitutes a fundamental cognitive ability. In this paper, we propose a …

We present an approach to identify argumentative questions among web search queries.
Argumentative questions ask for reasons to support a certain stance on a controversial topic …

Most natural language models and tools are restricted to one language, typically English.
For researchers in the behavioral sciences investigating languages other than English, and …

Online reviews contain comparative opinions that reveal the competitive relationships of
related products, help identify the competitiveness of products in the marketplace, and …

In this paper, we present our submission approach for the third Touché lab at CLEF 2022 [1],
shared task 2 on Argument Retrieval for Comparative Questions, which tackles answering …

In this paper, we present the Team's Grimjack retrieval approaches for the Touché shared
task on Argument Retrieval for Comparative Questions. In total, we submit five runs that …