Argument mining

Argument mining, or argumentation mining, is a research area within the natural-language processing field. The goal of argument mining is the automatic extraction and identification of argumentative structures from natural language text with the aid of computer programs.[1] Such argumentative structures include the premise, conclusions, the argument scheme and the relationship between the main and subsidiary argument, or the main and counter-argument within discourse.[2][3] The Argument Mining workshop series is the main research forum for argument mining related research.[4]

Applications

Argument mining has been applied in many different genres including the qualitative assessment of social media content (e.g. Twitter, Facebook), where it provides a powerful tool for policy-makers and researchers in social and political sciences.[1] Other domains include legal documents, product reviews, scientific articles, online debates, newspaper articles and dialogical domains. Transfer learning approaches have been successfully used to combine the different domains into a domain agnostic argumentation model.[5]

Argument mining has been used to provide students individual writing support by accessing and visualizing the argumentation discourse in their texts. The application of argument mining in a user-centered learning tool helped students to improve their argumentation skills significantly compared to traditional argumentation learning applications. [6]

Challenges

Given the wide variety of text genres and the different research perspectives and approaches, it has been difficult to reach a common and objective evaluation scheme.[7] Many annotated data sets have been proposed, with some gaining popularity, but a consensual data set is yet to be found. Annotating argumentative structures is a highly demanding task. There have been successful attempts to delegate such annotation tasks to the crowd but the process still requires a lot of effort and carries significant cost. Initial attempts to bypass this hurdle were made using the weak supervision approach.[8]

gollark: Okay, so learn that and prove it so [REDACTED].
gollark: It would be useful if it was proved or disproved, and one of the things it would be useful for is Project PURPOSELESS CHAIRMANSHIPS, you see.
gollark: Yes, I know, I'm saying it's necessary for the successful completion of Project PURPOSELESS CHAIRMANSHIPS.
gollark: Yes, we get those frequently.
gollark: Please do, it would really help with Project PURPOSELESS CHAIRMANSHIPS?

See also

References
  1. Lippi, Marco; Torroni, Paolo (2016-04-20). "Argumentation Mining: State of the Art and Emerging Trends". ACM Transactions on Internet Technology. 16 (2): 10. doi:10.1145/2850417. ISSN 1533-5399.
  2. Budzynska, Katarzyna; Villata, Serena. "Argument Mining - IJCAI2016 Tutorial". www.i3s.unice.fr. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  3. Gurevych, Iryna; Reed, Chris; Slonim, Noam; Stein, Benno. "NLP Approaches to Computational Argumentation - ACL 2016 Tutorial".
  4. "5th Workshop on Argument Mining".
  5. Wambsganss, Thiemo; Molyndris, Nikolaos; Söllner, Matthias (2020-03-09), "Unlocking Transfer Learning in Argumentation Mining: A Domain-Independent Modelling Approach", WI2020 Zentrale Tracks, GITO Verlag, pp. 341–356, ISBN 978-3-95545-335-0, retrieved 2020-08-07
  6. "AL: An Adaptive Learning Support System for Argumentation Skills | Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems". dl.acm.org. doi:10.1145/3313831.3376732. Retrieved 2020-08-07.
  7. "Unshared Task - 3rd Workshop on Argument Mining".
  8. Levy, Ran; Gretz, Shai; Sznajder, Benjamin; Hummel, Shay; Aharonov, Ranit; Slonim, Noam (2017). "Unsupervised corpus-wide claim detection". Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Argumentation Mining 2017.


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