Benno Stein

Argumentation Synthesis following Rhetorical Strategies

2018 · Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)

Persuasion is rarely achieved through a loose set of arguments alone. Rather, an effective delivery of arguments follows a rhetorical strategy, combining logical reasoning with appeals to ethics and emotion. We argue that such a …

TIR 2017. 14th international workshop on technologies for information retrieval: Preface

2017 · Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)

Presents the introductory welcome message from the conference proceedings. May include the conference officers' congratulations to all involved with the conference event and publication of the proceedings record.

Exploratory Search Pipes with Scoped Facets

2019

This paper presents faceted search technology tailored to the peculiarities of exploratory search tasks. In contrast to traditional faceted search systems, facets in our system are arranged as a pipe, i.e., are applied sequentially one …

Beyond Metadata: What Paper Authors Say About Corpora They Use

2021

The growing ecosystem of data sharing in science has put dataset search into the focus. To make data sharing and reuse more feasible, new retrieval tools and services are being developed. Currently, dataset retrieval relies …

Computational Argumentation Quality Assessment in Natural Language

2017

Henning Wachsmuth, Nona Naderi, Yufang Hou, Yonatan Bilu, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Tim Alberdingk Thijm, Graeme Hirst, Benno Stein. Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 1, Long …

The Argument Reasoning Comprehension Task: Identification and Reconstruction of Implicit Warrants

2018

Ivan Habernal, Henning Wachsmuth, Iryna Gurevych, Benno Stein. Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers). 2018.

SemEval-2019 Task 4: Hyperpartisan News Detection

2019

Hyperpartisan news is news that takes an extreme left-wing or right-wing standpoint. If one is able to reliably compute this meta information, news articles may be automatically tagged, this way encouraging or discouraging readers to …