We are thrillered to announce that Marco Guerini from FBK Trento (webpage) will give a keynote talk at ArgMining2020!
Title: Counter Narrative Generation against online hate speech, data and strategies
Abstract
Tackling online hatred using argumentation-based textual responses – called counter narratives – has been brought under the spotlight recently. Accordingly, a research line has emerged to automatically generate counter narratives in order to facilitate the direct intervention in the discussions and to prevent hate content from further spreading. Still, natural language generation approaches suffer from the lack of sufficient amount of quality data and tend to produce generic/repetitive responses. Being aware of the aforementioned limitations, we present several methodologies to collect responses to hate effectively, and describe the best generation strategies/neural architectures that can be used for counter narrative generation.
Program
The list of accepted papers is now avalable online
14:00–14:15 Opening Session
14:15–15:15 Invited Talk by Marco Guerini (FBK Trento, Italy)
15:15–15:30 Break
15:30–16:00 Oral Presentations — Session 1
Annotating Topics, Stance, Argumentativeness and Claims in Dutch Social Media Comments: A Pilot Study (Nina Bauwelinck and Els Lefever)
Detecting Media Bias in News Articles using Gaussian Bias Distributions (Findings of EMNLP) (Wei-Fan Chen Khalid Al-Khatib, Benno Stein, Henning Wachsmuth)
Annotation and Detection of Arguments in Tweets (Robin Schaefer and Manfred Stede)
Annotating argumentation in Swedish social media (Anna Lindahl)
16:00–16:30 Oral Presentations — Session 2
Exploring the use of Morality in Argumentation (Jonathan Kobbe, Ines Rehbein, Ioana Hulpuș and Heiner Stuckenschmidt)
Argument from Old Man's View: Assessing Social Bias in Argumentation (Maximilian Spliethöver and Henning Wachsmuth)
Style Analysis of Argumentative Texts by Mining Rhetorical Devices (Khalid Al Khatib, Viorel Morari and Benno Stein)
16:30-16:45 Break
16:45-17:15 Oral Presentations — Session 3
Aspect-Based Argument Mining (Dietrich Trautmann)
Creating a Domain-diverse Corpus for Theory-based Argument Quality Assessment (Lily Ng, Anne Lauscher, Joel Tetreault and Courtney Napoles)
Semi-Supervised Cleansing of Web Argument Corpora (Jonas Dorsch and Henning Wachsmuth)
17:15-17:45 Oral Presentations — Session 4
ECHR: Legal Corpus for Argument Mining (Prakash Poudyal, Jaromir Savelka, Aagje Ieven, Marie Francine Moens, Teresa Goncalves and Paulo Quaresma)
Use of Claim Graphing and Argumentation Schemes in Biomedical Literature: A Manual Approach to Analysis (Eli Moser and Robert E. Mercer)
DebateSum: A large-scale argument mining and summarization dataset (Allen Roush and Arvind Balaji)
News Aggregation with Diverse Viewpoint Identification Using Neural Embeddings and Semantic Understanding Models (Mark Carlebach, Ria Cheruvu, Brandon Walker, Cesar Ilharco Magalhaes and Sylvain Jaume)
17:45-18:00 Best Paper Award (sponsored by IBM) and Concluding Remarks
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