Before name-calling: Dynamics and triggers of ad hominem fallacies in web argumentation

I Habernal, H Wachsmuth, I Gurevych… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
Arguing without committing a fallacy is one of the main requirements of an ideal debate. But
even when debating rules are strictly enforced and fallacious arguments punished, arguers …

[PDF][PDF] What makes a convincing argument? empirical analysis and detecting attributes of convincingness in web argumentation

I Habernal, I Gurevych - Proceedings of the 2016 conference on …, 2016 - aclanthology.org
This article tackles a new challenging task in computational argumentation. Given a pair of
two arguments to a certain controversial topic, we aim to directly assess qualitative …

Argument-based detection and classification of fallacies in political debates

P Goffredo, M Espinoza, S Villata… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - hal.science
Fallacies are arguments that employ faulty reasoning. Given their persuasive and seemingly
valid nature, fallacious arguments are often used in political debates. Employing these …

Breaking down the invisible wall of informal fallacies in online discussions

SY Sahai, O Balalau, R Horincar - … of the 59th Annual Meeting of …, 2021 - inria.hal.science
People debate on a variety of topics on online platforms such as Reddit, or Facebook.
Debates can be lengthy, with users exchanging a wealth of information and opinions …

[PDF][PDF] Counter-argument generation by attacking weak premises

M Alshomary, S Syed, A Dhar, M Potthast… - Findings of the …, 2021 - aclanthology.org
Text generation has received a lot of attention in computational argumentation research as
of recently. A particularly challenging task is the generation of counter-arguments. So far …

[PDF][PDF] Fallacious Argument Classification in Political Debates.

P Goffredo, S Haddadan, V Vorakitphan, E Cabrio… - IJCAI, 2022 - ijcai.org
Fallacies play a prominent role in argumentation since antiquity due to their contribution to
argumentation in critical thinking education. Their role is even more crucial nowadays as …

Neural argument generation augmented with externally retrieved evidence

X Hua, L Wang - arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.10254, 2018 - arxiv.org
High quality arguments are essential elements for human reasoning and decision-making
processes. However, effective argument construction is a challenging task for both human …

Learning from revisions: Quality assessment of claims in argumentation at scale

G Skitalinskaya, J Klaff, H Wachsmuth - arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.10250, 2021 - arxiv.org
Assessing the quality of arguments and of the claims the arguments are composed of has
become a key task in computational argumentation. However, even if different claims share …

Conclusion-based counter-argument generation

M Alshomary, H Wachsmuth - arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.09911, 2023 - arxiv.org
In real-world debates, the most common way to counter an argument is to reason against its
main point, that is, its conclusion. Existing work on the automatic generation of natural …

Attentive interaction model: Modeling changes in view in argumentation

Y Jo, S Poddar, B Jeon, Q Shen, CP Rosé… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
We present a neural architecture for modeling argumentative dialogue that explicitly models
the interplay between an Opinion Holder's (OH's) reasoning and a challenger's argument …