no code implementations • COLING (ArgMining) 2020 • Khalid Al Khatib, Viorel Morari, Benno Stein
To this end, we developed and evaluated a grammar-based approach for identifying 26 syntax-based devices.
no code implementations • NAACL (sdp) 2021 • Khalid Al Khatib, Tirthankar Ghosal, Yufang Hou, Anita de Waard, Dayne Freitag
Argument mining targets structures in natural language related to interpretation and persuasion which are central to scientific communication.
no code implementations • COLING 2022 • Matti Wiegmann, Khalid Al Khatib, Vishal Khanna, Benno Stein
Existing studies on the analysis of persuasion in online discussions focus on investigating the effectiveness of comments in discussions and ignore the analysis of the effectiveness of debaters over multiple discussions.
no code implementations • COLING (PEOPLES) 2020 • Roxanne El Baff, Khalid Al Khatib, Benno Stein, Henning Wachsmuth
News editorials aim to shape the opinions of their readership and the general public on timely controversial issues.
1 code implementation • ACL 2021 • Khalid Al Khatib, Lukas Trautner, Henning Wachsmuth, Yufang Hou, Benno Stein
Generating high-quality arguments, while being challenging, may benefit a wide range of downstream applications, such as writing assistants and argument search engines.
no code implementations • COLING 2020 • Shahbaz Syed, Roxanne El Baff, Johannes Kiesel, Khalid Al Khatib, Benno Stein, Martin Potthast
With Webis-EditorialSum-2020, we present a corpus of 1330 carefully curated summaries for 266 news editorials.
no code implementations • ACL 2020 • Janek Bevendorff, Khalid Al Khatib, Martin Potthast, Benno Stein
This paper introduces the Webis Gmane Email Corpus 2019, the largest publicly available and fully preprocessed email corpus to date.
no code implementations • ACL 2020 • Roxanne El Baff, Henning Wachsmuth, Khalid Al Khatib, Benno Stein
News editorials argue about political issues in order to challenge or reinforce the stance of readers with different ideologies.
no code implementations • ACL 2020 • Khalid Al Khatib, Michael V{\"o}lske, Shahbaz Syed, Nikolay Kolyada, Benno Stein
Predicting the persuasiveness of arguments has applications as diverse as writing assistance, essay scoring, and advertising.
no code implementations • WS 2019 • Wei-Fan Chen, Khalid Al Khatib, Matthias Hagen, Henning Wachsmuth, Benno Stein
Many discussions on online platforms suffer from users offending others by using abusive terminology, threatening each other, or being sarcastic.
no code implementations • WS 2019 • Roxanne El Baff, Henning Wachsmuth, Khalid Al Khatib, Manfred Stede, Benno Stein
Synthesis approaches in computational argumentation so far are restricted to generating claim-like argument units or short summaries of debates.