Argument Mining

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

7 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

6 subtasks in the archive's task tree.

Parent tasks archive 2025-07-28

Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 98 papers with code (284 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• DebateSum: A large-scale argument mining and summarization dataset
  14 Nov 2020 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 1 samples · 0 unverified · 1 pointer-only (licence)
  Finally, we present a search engine for this dataset which is utilized extensively by members of the National Speech and Debate Association today.
• Categorizing Comparative Sentences
  17 Sep 2018 3 repositories listed
  We tackle the tasks of automatically identifying comparative sentences and categorizing the intended preference (e.
• Which Side Are You On? A Multi-task Dataset for End-to-End Argument Summarisation and Evaluation
  5 Jun 2024 2 repositories listed
  In our work, we introduce an argument mining dataset that captures the end-to-end process of preparing an argumentative essay for a debate, which covers the tasks of claim and evidence identification (Task 1 ED),…
• ABCD: A Graph Framework to Convert Complex Sentences to a Covering Set of Simple Sentences
  22 Jun 2021 2 repositories listed
  On DeSSE, which has a more even balance of complex sentence types, our model achieves higher accuracy on the number of atomic sentences than an encoder-decoder baseline.
• Argument Mining Driven Analysis of Peer-Reviews
  10 Dec 2020 2 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 2 samples · 2 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)
  Peer reviewing is a central process in modern research and essential for ensuring high quality and reliability of published work.
• Yes, we can! Mining Arguments in 50 Years of US Presidential Campaign Debates
  1 Jul 2019 2 repositories listed
  We address this task in an empirical manner by annotating 39 political debates from the last 50 years of US presidential campaigns, creating a new corpus of 29k argument components, labeled as premises and claims.
• Classification and Clustering of Arguments with Contextualized Word Embeddings
  24 Jun 2019 2 repositories listed
  We experiment with two recent contextualized word embedding methods (ELMo and BERT) in the context of open-domain argument search.
• Where is Your Evidence: Improving Fact-checking by Justification Modeling
  1 Nov 2018 2 repositories listed
  Fact-checking is a journalistic practice that compares a claim made publicly against trusted sources of facts.
• Leveraging Context for Multimodal Fallacy Classification in Political Debates
  21 Jul 2025 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we present our submission to the MM-ArgFallacy2025 shared task, which aims to advance research in multimodal argument mining, focusing on logical fallacies in political debates.
• Enhancing Rhetorical Figure Annotation: An Ontology-Based Web Application with RAG Integration
  18 Dec 2024 1 repository listed
  To overcome this issue, we develop a web application called "Find your Figure" that facilitates the identification and annotation of German rhetorical figures.
• CasiMedicos-Arg: A Medical Question Answering Dataset Annotated with Explanatory Argumentative Structures
  7 Oct 2024 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we follow this direction, and we present, to the best of our knowledge, the first multilingual dataset for Medical Question Answering where correct and incorrect diagnoses for a clinical case are enriched…
• KNOWCOMP POKEMON Team at DialAM-2024: A Two-Stage Pipeline for Detecting Relations in Dialogical Argument Mining
  29 Jul 2024 1 repository listed
  Dialogical Argument Mining(DialAM) is an important branch of Argument Mining(AM).
• Argument Mining in Data Scarce Settings: Cross-lingual Transfer and Few-shot Techniques
  4 Jul 2024 1 repository listed
  Contrary to previous work, we show that for Argument Mining data transfer obtains better results than model-transfer and that fine-tuning outperforms few-shot methods.
• In-Context Learning and Fine-Tuning GPT for Argument Mining
  10 Jun 2024 1 repository listed
  In the training-free ICL setting, we show that GPT-4 is able to leverage relevant information from only a few demonstration examples and achieve very competitive classification accuracy on ATC.
• DMON: A Simple yet Effective Approach for Argument Structure Learning
  2 May 2024 1 repository listed
  Argument structure learning~(ASL) entails predicting relations between arguments.
• WIBA: What Is Being Argued? A Comprehensive Approach to Argument Mining
  1 May 2024 1 repository listed
  First, we develop and release an Argument Detection model that can classify a piece of text as an argument with an F1 score between 79% and 86% on three different benchmark datasets.
• Exploring Key Point Analysis with Pairwise Generation and Graph Partitioning
  17 Apr 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 8 of 13 samples · 5 unverified · 13 pointer-only (licence)
  Our objective is to train a generative model that can simultaneously provide a score indicating the presence of shared key point between a pair of arguments and generate the shared key point.
• Are Large Language Models Reliable Argument Quality Annotators?
  15 Apr 2024 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we study the potential of using state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) as proxies for argument quality annotators.
• A School Student Essay Corpus for Analyzing Interactions of Argumentative Structure and Quality
  3 Apr 2024 1 repository listed
  When combined with automatic essay scoring, interactions of the argumentative structure and quality scores can be exploited for comprehensive writing support.
• LawInstruct: A Resource for Studying Language Model Adaptation to the Legal Domain
  2 Apr 2024 1 repository listed
  We publish LawInstruct as a resource for further study of instruction tuning in the legal domain.
• TACO -- Twitter Arguments from COnversations
  30 Mar 2024 1 repository listed
  Twitter has emerged as a global hub for engaging in online conversations and as a research corpus for various disciplines that have recognized the significance of its user-generated content.
• End-to-End Argument Mining over Varying Rhetorical Structures
  20 Jan 2024 1 repository listed
  Rhetorical Structure Theory implies no single discourse interpretation of a text, and the limitations of RST parsers further exacerbate inconsistent parsing of similar structures.
• Automatic Analysis of Substantiation in Scientific Peer Reviews
  20 Nov 2023 1 repository listed
  With the increasing amount of problematic peer reviews in top AI conferences, the community is urgently in need of automatic quality control measures.
• Exploring the Potential of Large Language Models in Computational Argumentation
  15 Nov 2023 1 repository listed
  As large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in understanding context and generating natural language, it is worthwhile to evaluate the performance of LLMs on diverse computational…
• Data and models for stance and premise detection in COVID-19 tweets: insights from the Social Media Mining for Health (SMM4H) 2022 shared task
  14 Nov 2023 1 repository listed
  The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked numerous discussions on social media platforms, with users sharing their views on topics such as mask-wearing and vaccination.
• Overview of ImageArg-2023: The First Shared Task in Multimodal Argument Mining
  15 Oct 2023 1 repository listed
  This paper presents an overview of the ImageArg shared task, the first multimodal Argument Mining shared task co-located with the 10th Workshop on Argument Mining at EMNLP 2023.
• TILFA: A Unified Framework for Text, Image, and Layout Fusion in Argument Mining
  8 Oct 2023 1 repository listed
  A main goal of Argument Mining (AM) is to analyze an author's stance.
• "I'd Like to Have an Argument, Please": Argumentative Reasoning in Large Language Models
  29 Sep 2023 1 repository listed
  We evaluate two large language models (LLMs) ability to perform argumentative reasoning.
• How to Handle Different Types of Out-of-Distribution Scenarios in Computational Argumentation? A Comprehensive and Fine-Grained Field Study
  15 Sep 2023 1 repository listed
  Our findings challenge the previously asserted general superiority of in-context learning (ICL) for OOD.
• DebateKG: Automatic Policy Debate Case Creation with Semantic Knowledge Graphs
  9 Jul 2023 1 repository listed
  We leverage the txtai semantic search and knowledge graph toolchain to produce and contribute 9 semantic knowledge graphs built on this dataset.

Syntology lines on 3 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.