Peer-review plays a critical role in the scientific writing and publication ecosystem. To
assess the efficiency and efficacy of the reviewing process, one essential element is to …

Automatic essay scoring (AES) is the task of assigning grades to essays without human
interference. Existing systems for AES are typically trained to predict the score of each single …

News editorials argue about political issues in order to challenge or reinforce the stance of
readers with different ideologies. Previous research has investigated such persuasive …

Online debate forums provide users a platform to express their opinions on controversial
topics while being exposed to opinions from diverse set of viewpoints. Existing work in …

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

High quality arguments are essential elements for human reasoning and decision-making
processes. However, effective argument construction is a challenging task for both human …

Automatic detection of persuasion in online discussion is key to understanding how social
media is used. Predicting persuasiveness is difficult, however, due to the need to model …

Persuasion is rarely achieved through a loose set of arguments alone. Rather, an effective
delivery of arguments follows a rhetorical strategy, combining logical reasoning with appeals …

The computational treatment of arguments on controversial issues has been subject to
extensive NLP research, due to its envisioned impact on opinion formation, decision making …

Existing argumentation datasets have succeeded in allowing researchers to develop
computational methods for analyzing the content, structure and linguistic features of …