Developing intelligent persuasive conversational agents to change people's opinions and
actions for social good is the frontier in advancing the ethical development of automated …

" This book is an absolute necessity for instructors at all levels, as well as an indispensible
reference for researchers. Introducing NLP, computational linguistics, and speech …

Argumentation is a type of discourse where speakers try to persuade their audience about
the reasonableness of a claim by presenting supportive arguments. Most work in argument …

Modeling what makes an advertisement persuasive, ie, eliciting the desired response from
consumer, is critical to the study of propaganda, social psychology, and marketing. Despite …

Argumentation mining is an application of natural language processing (NLP) that emerged
a few years ago and has recently enjoyed considerable popularity, as demonstrated by a …

Intelligent conversational agents, or chatbots, can take on various identities and are
increasingly engaging in more human-centered conversations with persuasive goals …

Social media users were found to be persuaded by misinformation and contribute to the
propagation of misinformation. It is important and urgent to understand the mechanisms …

The study of argumentation is transversal to several research domains, from philosophy to
linguistics, from the law to computer science and artificial intelligence. In discourse analysis …

This survey builds an interdisciplinary picture of Argument Mining (AM), with a strong focus
on its potential to address issues related to Social and Political Science. More specifically …

Abstract Argumentation has long been studied in a number of disciplines, including several
branches of linguistics. In recent years, computational processing of argumentation has …