Clinical psychology literature indicates that reframing ir-rational thoughts can help bring
positive cognitive change to those suffering from mental distress. Through data from an …

Online discussions often derail into toxic exchanges between participants. Recent efforts
mostly focused on detecting antisocial behavior after the fact, by analyzing single comments …

Every fiscal quarter, companies hold earnings calls in which company executives respond to
questions from analysts. After these calls, analysts often change their price target …

Finding attackable sentences in an argument is the first step toward successful refutation in
argumentation. We present a first large-scale analysis of sentence attackability in online …

Understanding an online argumentative discussion is essential for understanding users'
opinions on a topic and their underlying reasoning. A key challenge in determining …

Achieving social welfare and success is heavily reliant on our ability to persuade and
influence others, yet this capacity is known to be one of the most challenging social skills to …

Purpose Complex social interactions such as argumentation and persuasion are
increasingly common in online communications. To better understand these interactions and …

In our world with full of uncertainty, debates and argumentation contribute to the progress of
science and society. Despite of the increasing attention to characterize human arguments …

Argument structure elaborates the relation among claims and premises. Previous works in
persuasiveness prediction do not consider this relation in their architectures. To take …

Deliberation among individuals online plays a key role in shaping the opinions that drive
votes, purchases, donations, and other critical offline behavior. Yet, the determinants of …