Argument mining is the automatic identification and extraction of the structure of inference
and reasoning expressed as arguments presented in natural language. Understanding …

Argument mining is a core technology for automating argument search in large document
collections. Despite its usefulness for this task, most current approaches to argument mining …

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 …

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 …

One key consequence of the information revolution is a significant increase and a
contamination of our information supply. The practice of fact checking won't suffice to …

Argument mining is a core technology for enabling argument search in large corpora.
However, most current approaches fall short when applied to heterogeneous texts. In this …

When searching for information, a human reader first glances over a document, spots
relevant sections, and then focuses on a few sentences for resolving her intention. However …

Argument search is the study of search engine technology that can retrieve arguments for
potentially controversial topics or claims upon user request. The design of an argument …

In the latest years, the healthcare domain has seen an increasing interest in the definition of
intelligent systems to support clinicians in their everyday tasks and activities. Among others …

Prior work has commonly defined argument retrieval from heterogeneous document
collections as a sentence-level classification task. Consequently, argument retrieval suffers …