Manfred Stede

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 …

Assessing Open-Source Large Language Models on Argumentation Mining Subtasks

2024 · arXiv (Cornell University)

We explore the capability of four open-sourcelarge language models (LLMs) in argumentation mining (AM). We conduct experiments on three different corpora; persuasive essays(PE), argumentative microtexts (AMT) Part 1 and Part 2, based on two argumentation …

Discourse Segmentation of German Texts

2015 · LDV-Forum/Journal for language technology and computational linguistics

This paper addresses the problem of segmenting German texts into minimal discourse units, as they are needed, for example, in RST-based discourse parsing. We discuss relevant variants of the problem, introduce the design of our …