Exploring the potential of large language models in computational argumentation

G Chen, L Cheng, LA Tuan, L Bing - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.09022, 2023 - arxiv.org
Computational argumentation has become an essential tool in various fields, including
artificial intelligence, law, and public policy. It is an emerging research field in natural …

Do you hear the people sing? key point analysis via iterative clustering and abstractive summarisation

H Li, V Schlegel, R Batista-Navarro… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Argument summarisation is a promising but currently under-explored field. Recent work has
aimed to provide textual summaries in the form of concise and salient short texts, ie, key …

Assessing the sufficiency of arguments through conclusion generation

T Gurcke, M Alshomary, H Wachsmuth - arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.13495, 2021 - arxiv.org
The premises of an argument give evidence or other reasons to support a conclusion.
However, the amount of support required depends on the generality of a conclusion, the …

An empirical analysis of diversity in argument summarization

M Van Der Meer, P Vossen, CM Jonker… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
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 …

Conclusion-based counter-argument generation

M Alshomary, H Wachsmuth - arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.09911, 2023 - arxiv.org
In real-world debates, the most common way to counter an argument is to reason against its
main point, that is, its conclusion. Existing work on the automatic generation of natural …

Key point analysis via contrastive learning and extractive argument summarization

M Alshomary, T Gurcke, S Syed, P Heinrich… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Key point analysis is the task of extracting a set of concise and high-level statements from a
given collection of arguments, representing the gist of these arguments. This paper presents …

Assessing the quality of argumentative texts: examining the general agreement between different rating procedures and exploring inferences of (dis) agreement cases

Y Landrieu, F De Smedt, H Van Keer… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Assessing argumentative writing skills is not a straightforward task, as multiple elements
need to be considered. In function of providing feedback to students and keeping track of …

ArgU: A controllable factual argument generator

S Saha, R Srihari - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.05334, 2023 - arxiv.org
Effective argumentation is essential towards a purposeful conversation with a satisfactory
outcome. For example, persuading someone to reconsider smoking might involve …

Overview of the 2022 validity and novelty prediction shared task

P Heinisch, A Frank, J Opitz, M Plenz… - Proceedings of the 9th …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
This paper provides an overview of the Argument Validity and Novelty Prediction Shared
Task that was organized as part of the 9th Workshop on Argument Mining (ArgMining 2022) …

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 …