Language models demonstrate both quantitative improvement and new qualitative
capabilities with increasing scale. Despite their potentially transformative impact, these new …

We present the results and the main findings of SemEval-2020 Task 11 on Detection of
Propaganda Techniques in News Articles. The task featured two subtasks. Subtask SI is …

Reasoning is central to human intelligence. However, fallacious arguments are common,
and some exacerbate problems such as spreading misinformation about climate change. In …

This paper surveys and organizes research works in an under-studied area, which we call
automated evaluation for student argumentative writing. Unlike traditional automated writing …

Identifying the quality of free-text arguments has become an important task in the rapidly
expanding field of computational argumentation. In this work, we explore the challenging …

Computational argumentation is expected to play a critical role in the future of web search.
To make this happen, many search-related questions must be revisited, such as how people …

This paper is a condensed report on Touché: the first shared task on argument retrieval that
was held at CLEF 2020. With the goal to create a collaborative platform for research in …

This paper is a condensed report on the second year of the Touché shared task on
argument retrieval held at CLEF 2021. With the goal to provide a collaborative platform for …

Modeling what makes an advertisement persuasive, ie, eliciting the desired response from
consumer, is critical to the study of propaganda, social psychology, and marketing. Despite …

Given any argument on any controversial topic, how to counter it? This question implies the
challenging retrieval task of finding the best counterargument. Since prior knowledge of a …