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Writing and argumentation are critical to both professional physics and physics education. However, the skill of making an extended argument in writing is often overlooked in physics classrooms, apart from certain practices like lab…

Physics Education · Physics 2020-06-19 Tor Ole B. Odden , John Burk

Studies of writing revisions rarely focus on revision quality. To address this issue, we introduce a corpus of between-draft revisions of student argumentative essays, annotated as to whether each revision improves essay quality. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Tazin Afrin , Diane Litman

Analyzing how humans revise their writings is an interesting research question, not only from an educational perspective but also in terms of artificial intelligence. Better understanding of this process could facilitate many NLP…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Omid Kashefi , Tazin Afrin , Meghan Dale , Christopher Olshefski , Amanda Godley , Diane Litman , Rebecca Hwa

Argument mining algorithms analyze the argumentative structure of essays, making them a valuable tool for enhancing education by providing targeted feedback on the students' argumentation skills. While current methods often use encoder or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Lucile Favero , Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz , Tanja Käser , Nuria Oliver

This study illustrates how incorporating feedback-oriented annotations into the scoring pipeline can enhance the accuracy of automated essay scoring (AES). This approach is demonstrated with the Persuasive Essays for Rating, Selecting, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Christopher Ormerod

Existing approaches for automated essay scoring and document representation learning typically rely on discourse parsers to incorporate discourse structure into text representation. However, the performance of parsers is not always…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Farjana Sultana Mim , Naoya Inoue , Paul Reisert , Hiroki Ouchi , Kentaro Inui

The successful analysis of argumentative techniques from user-generated text is central to many downstream tasks such as political and market analysis. Recent argument mining tools use state-of-the-art deep learning methods to extract and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Amirhossein Farzam , Shashank Shekhar , Isaac Mehlhaff , Marco Morucci

We explore the task of automatic assessment of argument quality. To that end, we actively collected 6.3k arguments, more than a factor of five compared to previously examined data. Each argument was explicitly and carefully annotated for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Assaf Toledo , Shai Gretz , Edo Cohen-Karlik , Roni Friedman , Elad Venezian , Dan Lahav , Michal Jacovi , Ranit Aharonov , Noam Slonim

The ability to revise in response to feedback is critical to students' writing success. In the case of argument writing in specific, identifying whether an argument revision (AR) is successful or not is a complex problem because AR quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Zhexiong Liu , Diane Litman , Elaine Wang , Lindsay Matsumura , Richard Correnti

This paper presents a corpus-based analysis of argument structure errors in learner Chinese. The data for analysis includes sentences produced by language learners as well as their corrections by native speakers. We couple the data with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Yuguang Duan , Zi Lin , Weiwei Sun

Although Natural Language Processing (NLP) research on argument mining has advanced considerably in recent years, most studies draw on corpora of asynchronous and written texts, often produced by individuals. Few published corpora of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Christopher Olshefski , Luca Lugini , Ravneet Singh , Diane Litman , Amanda Godley

Argumentation mining is a field of computational linguistics that is devoted to extracting from texts and classifying arguments and relations between them, as well as constructing an argumentative structure. A significant obstacle to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Irina Fishcheva , Valeriya Goloviznina , Evgeny Kotelnikov

We present an annotation approach to capturing emotional and cognitive empathy in student-written peer reviews on business models in German. We propose an annotation scheme that allows us to model emotional and cognitive empathy scores…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Thiemo Wambsganss , Christina Niklaus , Matthias Söllner , Siegfried Handschuh , Jan Marco Leimeister

Argument mining is to analyze argument structure and extract important argument information from unstructured text. An argument mining system can help people automatically gain causal and logical information behind the text. As…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Lang Cao

By automatically recognize argument component, essay writers can do some inspections to texts that they have written. It will assist essay scoring process objectively and precisely because essay grader is able to see how well the argument…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-12-03 Derwin Suhartono

The purpose of an argumentative text is to support a certain conclusion. Yet, they are often omitted, expecting readers to infer them rather. While appropriate when reading an individual text, this rhetorical device limits accessibility…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Shahbaz Syed , Khalid Al-Khatib , Milad Alshomary , Henning Wachsmuth , Martin Potthast

For argumentation mining, there are several sub-tasks such as argumentation component type classification, relation classification. Existing research tends to solve such sub-tasks separately, but ignore the close relation between them. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-20 Zhongyu Wei , Chen Li , Yang Liu

Providing feedback on the argumentation of the learner is essential for developing critical thinking skills, however, it requires a lot of time and effort. To mitigate the overload on teachers, we aim to automate a process of providing…

Argument mining aims to detect all possible argumentative components and identify their relationships automatically. As a thriving task in natural language processing, there has been a large amount of corpus for academic study and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Huadai Liu , Wenqiang Xu , Xuan Lin , Jingjing Huo , Hong Chen , Zhou Zhao

Argumentation is a type of discourse where speakers try to persuade their audience about the reasonableness of a claim by presenting supportive arguments. Most work in argument mining has focused on modeling arguments in monologues. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Tuhin Chakrabarty , Christopher Hidey , Smaranda Muresan , Kathy Mckeown , Alyssa Hwang