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title = "Computational Argumentation Quality Assessment in Natural Language",
author = "Wachsmuth, Henning and
Naderi, Nona and
Hou, Yufang and
Bilu, Yonatan and
Prabhakaran, Vinodkumar and
Thijm, Tim Alberdingk and
Hirst, Graeme and
Stein, Benno",
editor = "Lapata, Mirella and
Blunsom, Phil and
Koller, Alexander",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the {E}uropean Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 1, Long Papers",
month = apr,
year = "2017",
address = "Valencia, Spain",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
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pages = "176--187",
abstract = "Research on computational argumentation faces the problem of how to automatically assess the quality of an argument or argumentation. While different quality dimensions have been approached in natural language processing, a common understanding of argumentation quality is still missing. This paper presents the first holistic work on computational argumentation quality in natural language. We comprehensively survey the diverse existing theories and approaches to assess logical, rhetorical, and dialectical quality dimensions, and we derive a systematic taxonomy from these. In addition, we provide a corpus with 320 arguments, annotated for all 15 dimensions in the taxonomy. Our results establish a common ground for research on computational argumentation quality assessment.",
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%A Wachsmuth, Henning
%A Naderi, Nona
%A Hou, Yufang
%A Bilu, Yonatan
%A Prabhakaran, Vinodkumar
%A Thijm, Tim Alberdingk
%A Hirst, Graeme
%A Stein, Benno
%Y Lapata, Mirella
%Y Blunsom, Phil
%Y Koller, Alexander
%S Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 1, Long Papers
%D 2017
%8 April
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Valencia, Spain
%F wachsmuth-etal-2017-computational
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Markdown (Informal)
[Computational Argumentation Quality Assessment in Natural Language](https://aclanthology.org/E17-1017) (Wachsmuth et al., EACL 2017)
ACL
- Henning Wachsmuth, Nona Naderi, Yufang Hou, Yonatan Bilu, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Tim Alberdingk Thijm, Graeme Hirst, and Benno Stein. 2017. Computational Argumentation Quality Assessment in Natural Language. In Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 1, Long Papers, pages 176–187, Valencia, Spain. Association for Computational Linguistics.