4 papers
Corpus Wide Argument Mining -- a Working Solution
Liat Ein-Dor, Eyal Shnarch, Lena Dankin +10
One of the main tasks in argument mining is the retrieval of argumentative content pertaining to a given topic. Most previous work addressed this task by retrieving a relatively sm…
Argument Invention from First Principles
Yonatan Bilu, Ariel Gera, Daniel Hershcovich +6
Competitive debaters often find themselves facing a challenging task -- how to debate a topic they know very little about, with only minutes to prepare, and without access to books…
Controversy in Context
Benjamin Sznajder, Ariel Gera, Yonatan Bilu +5
With the growing interest in social applications of Natural Language Processing and Computational Argumentation, a natural question is how controversial a given concept is. Prior w…
Fast End-to-End Wikification
Ilya Shnayderman, Liat Ein-Dor, Yosi Mass +7
Wikification of large corpora is beneficial for various NLP applications. Existing methods focus on quality performance rather than run-time, and are therefore non-feasible for lar…