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Argumentation is one of society's foundational pillars, and, sparked by advances in NLP and the vast availability of text data, automated mining of arguments receives increasing attention. A decisive property of arguments is their strength…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Michael Fromm , Max Berrendorf , Johanna Reiml , Isabelle Mayerhofer , Siddharth Bhargava , Evgeniy Faerman , Thomas Seidl

RST-style discourse parsing plays a vital role in many NLP tasks, revealing the underlying semantic/pragmatic structure of potentially complex and diverse documents. Despite its importance, one of the most prevailing limitations in modern…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Patrick Huber , Linzi Xing , Giuseppe Carenini

Argument mining has garnered increasing attention over the years, with the recent advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) further propelling this trend. However, current argument relations remain relatively simplistic and foundational,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yupei Ren , Xinyi Zhou , Ning Zhang , Shangqing Zhao , Man Lan , Xiaopeng Bai

We address the task of evidence retrieval for long document question answering, which involves locating relevant paragraphs within a document to answer a question. We aim to assess the applicability of large language models (LLMs) in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Inderjeet Nair , Shwetha Somasundaram , Apoorv Saxena , Koustava Goswami

Identifying argument components from unstructured texts and predicting the relationships expressed among them are two primary steps of argument mining. The intrinsic complexity of these tasks demands powerful learning models. While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Subhabrata Dutta , Jeevesh Juneja , Dipankar Das , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Detecting persuasion in argumentative text is a challenging task with important implications for understanding human communication. This work investigates the role of persuasion strategies - such as Attack on reputation, Distraction, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Tiziano Labruna , Arkadiusz Modzelewski , Giorgio Satta , Giovanni Da San Martino

Argumentation accommodates various rhetorical devices, such as questions, reported speech, and imperatives. These rhetorical tools usually assert argumentatively relevant propositions rather implicitly, so understanding their true meaning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Yohan Jo , Jacky Visser , Chris Reed , Eduard Hovy

One of the major goals in automated argumentation mining is to uncover the argument structure present in argumentative text. In order to determine this structure, one must understand how different individual components of the overall…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Peter Potash , Alexey Romanov , Anna Rumshisky

Engaging in a live debate requires, among other things, the ability to effectively rebut arguments claimed by your opponent. In particular, this requires identifying these arguments. Here, we suggest doing so by automatically mining claims…

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

The process of debating is essential in our daily lives, whether in studying, work activities, simple everyday discussions, political debates on TV, or online discussions on social networks. The range of uses for debates is broad. Due to…

Peer-review plays a critical role in the scientific writing and publication ecosystem. To assess the efficiency and efficacy of the reviewing process, one essential element is to understand and evaluate the reviews themselves. In this work,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Xinyu Hua , Mitko Nikolov , Nikhil Badugu , Lu Wang

Generating long, coherent text remains a challenge for large language models (LLMs), as they lack hierarchical planning and structured organization in discourse generation. We introduce Structural Alignment, a novel method that aligns LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Zae Myung Kim , Anand Ramachandran , Farideh Tavazoee , Joo-Kyung Kim , Oleg Rokhlenko , Dongyeop Kang

Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve strong performance in analyzing and generating text, yet they struggle with explicit, transparent, and verifiable reasoning over complex texts such as those containing debates. In particular, they lack…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Gianvincenzo Alfano , Sergio Greco , Lucio La Cava , Stefano Francesco Monea , Irina Trubitsyna

Computational argumentation has become an essential tool in various domains, including law, public policy, and artificial intelligence. It is an emerging research field in natural language processing that attracts increasing attention.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Guizhen Chen , Liying Cheng , Luu Anh Tuan , Lidong Bing

Automated large-scale analysis of public discussions around contested issues like abortion requires detecting and understanding the use of arguments. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in language processing tasks, their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Matteo Guida , Yulia Otmakhova , Eduard Hovy , Lea Frermann

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

Extracting informative arguments of events from news articles is a challenging problem in information extraction, which requires a global contextual understanding of each document. While recent work on document-level extraction has gone…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Xinya Du , Sha Li , Heng Ji

Coherence is an essential property of well-written texts, that refers to the way textual units relate to one another. In the era of generative AI, coherence assessment is essential for many NLP tasks; summarization, generation, long-form…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Aviya Maimon , Reut Tsarfaty

This paper outlines a general formal framework for reasoning systems, intended to support future analysis of inference architectures across domains. We model reasoning systems as structured tuples comprising phenomena, explanation space,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Saleh Nikooroo , Thomas Engel