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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

The surging amount of biomedical literature & digital clinical records presents a growing need for text mining techniques that can not only identify but also semantically relate entities in unstructured data. In this paper we propose a text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Hasham Ul Haq , Veysel Kocaman , David Talby

Finding the relationships between sentences in a document is crucial for tasks like fact-checking, argument mining, and text summarization. A key challenge is to identify which sentences act as premises or contradictions for a specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Antonin Sulc

Medication Extraction and Mining play an important role in healthcare NLP research due to its practical applications in hospital settings, such as their mapping into standard clinical knowledge bases (SNOMED-CT, BNF, etc.). In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Pablo Romero , Lifeng Han , Goran Nenadic

The task of Argument Mining, that is extracting and classifying argument components for a specific topic from large document sources, is an inherently difficult task for machine learning models and humans alike, as large Argument Mining…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Benjamin Schiller , Johannes Daxenberger , Andreas Waldis , Iryna Gurevych

Following the global COVID-19 pandemic, the number of scientific papers studying the virus has grown massively, leading to increased interest in automated literate review. We present a clinical text mining system that improves on previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Veysel Kocaman , David Talby

Decision-making usually takes five steps: identifying the problem, collecting data, extracting evidence, identifying pro and con arguments, and making decisions. Focusing on extracting evidence, this paper presents a hybrid model that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Patrick Abels , Zahra Ahmadi , Sophie Burkhardt , Benjamin Schiller , Iryna Gurevych , Stefan Kramer

Argument mining is often addressed by a pipeline method where segmentation of text into argumentative units is conducted first and proceeded by an argument component identification task. In this research, we apply a token-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Tariq Alhindi , Debanjan Ghosh

The contextual word embedding model, BERT, has proved its ability on downstream tasks with limited quantities of annotated data. BERT and its variants help to reduce the burden of complex annotation work in many interdisciplinary research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Gechuan Zhang , Paul Nulty , David Lillis

Despite considerable recent progress, the creation of well-balanced and diverse resources remains a time-consuming and costly challenge in Argument Mining. Active Learning reduces the amount of data necessary for the training of machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Nikolai Solmsdorf , Dietrich Trautmann , Hinrich Schütze

Available corpora for Argument Mining differ along several axes, and one of the key differences is the presence (or absence) of discourse markers to signal argumentative content. Exploring effective ways to use discourse markers has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Gil Rocha , Henrique Lopes Cardoso , Jonas Belouadi , Steffen Eger

A challenging task when generating summaries of legal documents is the ability to address their argumentative nature. We introduce a simple technique to capture the argumentative structure of legal documents by integrating argument role…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Mohamed Elaraby , Diane Litman

Objective: To evaluate the accuracy, computational cost and portability of a new Natural Language Processing (NLP) method for extracting medication information from clinical narratives. Materials and Methods: We propose an original…

Text summarization in medicine can help doctors for reducing the time to access important information from countless documents. The paper offers a supervised extractive summarization method based on conditional generative adversarial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Seyed Vahid Moravvej , Abdolreza Mirzaei , Mehran Safayani

Automatic extraction of medical information from clinical documents poses several challenges: high costs of required clinical expertise, limited interpretability of model predictions, restricted computational resources and privacy…

Argument mining tasks require an informed range of low to high complexity linguistic phenomena and commonsense knowledge. Previous work has shown that pre-trained language models are highly effective at encoding syntactic and semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 João Rodrigues , Ruben Branco , António Branco

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

Differentiating relationships between entity pairs with limited labeled instances poses a significant challenge in few-shot relation classification. Representations of textual data extract rich information spanning the domain, entities, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Philipp Borchert , Jochen De Weerdt , Marie-Francine Moens

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

Recently, the Natural Language Inference (NLI) task has been studied for semi-structured tables that do not have a strict format. Although neural approaches have achieved high performance in various types of NLI, including NLI between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Tomoya Kurosawa , Hitomi Yanaka