Argumentation mining from social media content has attracted increasing attention. The task is both challenging and rewarding. The informal nature of user-generated content makes the task dauntingly difficult. On the other hand, the insights that could be gained by a large-scale analysis of social media argumentation make it a very worthwhile task. In this position paper I discuss the motivation for social media argumentation mining, as well as the tasks and challenges involved.
@article{arxiv.1701.00168,
title = {Social Media Argumentation Mining: The Quest for Deliberateness in Raucousness},
author = {Jan Šnajder},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.00168},
year = {2017}
}