Zeljko Bekcic


2022

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Developing an argument annotation scheme based on a semantic classification of arguments
Lea Kawaletz | Heidrun Dorgeloh | Stefan Conrad | Zeljko Bekcic
Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

Corpora of argumentative discourse are commonly analyzed in terms of argumentative units, consisting of claims and premises. Both argument detection and classification are complex discourse processing tasks. Our paper introduces a semantic classification of arguments that can help to facilitate argument detection. We report on our experiences with corpus annotations using a function-based classification of arguments and a procedure for operationalizing the scheme by using semantic templates.