“Mining, Processing, and Reasoning over Textual Arguments” Description: Large amounts of text are added to the Web daily from social media, web-based commerce, scientific papers, eGovernment consultations, etc. Such texts are used to make decisions in the sense that people read the texts, carry out some informal analysis, and then (in the best case) make a decision; for example, a consumer might read the comments on an Amazon website about a camera before deciding what camera to buy. The problem is that such information is distributed, unstructured, and not cumulative.…
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[CfP] 4th Workshop on Argument Mining, in conjunction with EMNLP 2017
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 4th Workshop on Argument Mining, in conjunction with EMNLP 2017 Copenhagen, Denmark; September 8, 2017 – https://argmining2017.wordpress.com/ *Submission Deadline: Friday, June 2, 2017* WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION The goal of the workshop is to provide a follow-on forum to the last three years’ Argumentation Mining workshops at ACL, the first research forum devoted to argumentation mining in all domains of discourse. Argument mining (also, ‘argumentation mining’, also referred to as ‘computational argumentation’ in some recent works) is a relatively new challenge in corpus-based discourse analysis that involves automatically identifying argumentative structures within…