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Text generation has received a lot of attention in computational argumentation research as of recent. A particularly challenging task is the generation of counter-arguments. So far, approaches primarily focus on rebutting a given…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Milad Alshomary , Shahbaz Syed , Arkajit Dhar , Martin Potthast , Henning Wachsmuth

This paper describes our approach to hierarchical multi-label detection of persuasion techniques in meme texts. Our model, developed as a part of the recent SemEval task, is based on fine-tuning individual language models (BERT,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Kota Shamanth Ramanath Nayak , Leila Kosseim

Argumentation Mining addresses the challenging tasks of identifying boundaries of argumentative text fragments and extracting their relationships. Fully automated solutions do not reach satisfactory accuracy due to their insufficient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Fabian Sperrle , Rita Sevastjanova , Rebecca Kehlbeck , Mennatallah El-Assady

Due to the success of the pre-trained language model (PLM), existing PLM-based summarization models show their powerful generative capability. However, these models are trained on general-purpose summarization datasets, leading to generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Shi Zesheng , Zhou Yucheng

Probabilistic topic models are a powerful tool for extracting latent themes from large text datasets. In many text datasets, we also observe per-document covariates (e.g., source, style, political affiliation) that act as environments that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Dominic Sobhani , Amir Feder , David Blei

Supervised topic models are often sought to balance prediction quality and interpretability. However, when models are (inevitably) misspecified, standard approaches rarely deliver on both. We introduce a novel approach, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Jason Ren , Russell Kunes , Finale Doshi-Velez

Topic models and all their variants analyse text by learning meaningful representations through word co-occurrences. As pointed out by Williamson et al. (2010), such models implicitly assume that the probability of a topic to be active and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Kostadin Cvejoski , Ramsés J. Sánchez , César Ojeda

A key challenge in entity linking is making effective use of contextual information to disambiguate mentions that might refer to different entities in different contexts. We present a model that uses convolutional neural networks to capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Matthew Francis-Landau , Greg Durrett , Dan Klein

Understanding the intent behind chat between customers and customer service agents has become a crucial problem nowadays due to an exponential increase in the use of the Internet by people from different cultures and educational…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Bencheng Wei

Text summarization aims to compress a textual document to a short summary while keeping salient information. Extractive approaches are widely used in text summarization because of their fluency and efficiency. However, most of existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Peng Cui , Le Hu , Yuanchao Liu

The growing interest in argument mining and computational argumentation brings with it a plethora of Natural Language Understanding (NLU) tasks and corresponding datasets. However, as with many other NLU tasks, the dominant language is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Orith Toledo-Ronen , Matan Orbach , Yonatan Bilu , Artem Spector , Noam Slonim

Support or opposition concerning a debated claim such as abortion should be legal can have different underlying reasons, which we call perspectives. This paper explores how opinion mining can be enhanced with joint topic modeling, to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Tim Draws , Jody Liu , Nava Tintarev

Topic models are a useful analysis tool to uncover the underlying themes within document collections. The dominant approach is to use probabilistic topic models that posit a generative story, but in this paper we propose an alternative way…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Suzanna Sia , Ayush Dalmia , Sabrina J. Mielke

Existing deep hierarchical topic models are able to extract semantically meaningful topics from a text corpus in an unsupervised manner and automatically organize them into a topic hierarchy. However, it is unclear how to incorporate prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Zhibin Duan , Yishi Xu , Bo Chen , Dongsheng Wang , Chaojie Wang , Mingyuan Zhou

This study investigates an explainable reasoning method for financial decision-making based on knowledge-enhanced large language model agents. To address the limitations of traditional financial decision methods that rely on parameterized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Qingyuan Zhang , Yuxi Wang , Cancan Hua , Yulin Huang , Ning Lyu

We study the problem of generating abstractive summaries for opinionated text. We propose an attention-based neural network model that is able to absorb information from multiple text units to construct informative, concise, and fluent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-10 Lu Wang , Wang Ling

Comment generation, a new and challenging task in Natural Language Generation (NLG), attracts a lot of attention in recent years. However, comments generated by previous work tend to lack pertinence and diversity. In this paper, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Junheng Huang , Lu Pan , Kang Xu , Weihua Peng , Fayuan Li

Although automated harmful content detection systems are frequently used to monitor online platforms, moderators and end users frequently cannot understand the logic underlying their predictions. While recent studies have focused on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Trishita Dhara , Siddhesh Sheth

Against the backdrop of rapid advances in artificial intelligence, legal argument mining has emerged as an important research area linking legal texts with intelligent analysis, carrying significant theoretical and practical implications.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Xianglei Liao , Chuanyi Li , Kun Chen

In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have made significant advancements in developing human-like and engaging dialogue systems. However, in tasks such as consensus-building and persuasion, LLMs often struggle to resolve conflicts…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Zhaoqun Li , Xiaotong Fang , Chen Chen , Mengze Li , Beishui Liao