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Multi-Task Attentive Residual Networks for Argument Mining

24 Feb 2021arXiv:2102.12227archive 2025-07-28

Andrea Galassi, Marco Lippi, Paolo Torroni

We explore the use of residual networks and neural attention for multiple argument mining tasks. We propose a residual architecture that exploits attention, multi-task learning, and makes use of ensemble, without any assumption on document or argument structure. We present an extensive experimental evaluation on five different corpora of user-generated comments, scientific publications, and persuasive essays. Our results show that our approach is a strong competitor against state-of-the-art architectures with a higher computational footprint or corpus-specific design, representing an interesting compromise between generality, performance accuracy and reduced model size.

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Argument MiningComponent ClassificationLink PredictionMulti-Task LearningRelation Classification

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Component Classification CDCP ResAttArg Macro F1 78.71 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Link Prediction AbstRCT - Neoplasm ResAttArg F1 54.43 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Link Prediction CDCP ResAttArg F1 29.73 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Link Prediction DRI Corpus ResAttArg F1 43.66 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Relation Classification AbstRCT - Neoplasm ResAttArg Macro F1 70.92 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Relation Classification CDCP ResAttArg Macro F1 42.95 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report
Relation Classification DRI Corpus ResAttArg Macro F1 37.72 #1 of 1 Archive leaderboard report

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