Coarse-grained Argumentation Features for Scoring Persuasive Essays

Using Argument Mining to Assess the Argumentation Quality of Essays

Argument mining aims to determine the argumentative structure of texts. Although it is said to be crucial for future applications such as writing support systems, the benefit of its output has rarely been evaluated. This…

Argumentation Mining on Essays at Multi Scales

Argumentation mining on essays is a new challenging task in natural language processing, which aims to identify the types and locations of argumentation components. Recent research mainly models the task as a sequence ta…

Parsing Argumentation Structures in Persuasive Essays

In this article, we present a novel approach for parsing argumentation structures. We identify argument components using sequence labeling at the token level and apply a new joint model for detecting argumentation struct…

A Study of the Impact of Persuasive Argumentation in Political Debates

What Changed Your Mind: The Roles of Dynamic Topics and Discourse in Argumentation Process

In our world with full of uncertainty, debates and argumentation contribute to the progress of science and society. Despite of the increasing attention to characterize human arguments, most progress made so far focus on …