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Workshop Program
November 10, 2021
Organizers: Khalid Al-Khatib, Bauhaus-Universit\u00e4t, Weimar (chair) 09:00 -09:30 Opening Remarks
Yufang Hou, IBM Research Dublin (chair) Manfred Stede, Universit\u00e4t Potsdam (chair) 09:30 -10:30 Invited Talk 1
10:30 -11:00Coffee Break
Session 1
11:00 -11:20Argument Mining on Twitter: A Case Study on the Planned Parenthood Debate
Muhammad Mahad Afzal Bhatti, Ahsan Suheer Ahmad and Joonsuk Park
11:20 -11:40Multi-task and Multi-corpora Training Strategies to Enhance Argumentative Sen-
tence Linking Performance
Jan Wira Gotama Putra, Simone Teufel and Takenobu Tokunaga
11:40 -12:00Explainable Unsupervised Argument Similarity Rating with Abstract Meaning Rep-
resentation and Conclusion Generation
Juri Opitz, Philipp Heinisch, Philipp Wiesenbach, Philipp Cimiano and Anette
Frank
12:00 -13:00Lunch Break
Session 2
13:00 -13:20Knowledge-Enhanced Evidence Retrieval for Counterargument Generation
Yohan Jo, Haneul Yoo, JinYeong Bak, Alice Oh, Chris Reed and Eduard Hovy
13:20 -13:40On Classifying whether Two Texts are on the Same Side of an Argument
Erik K\u00f6rner, Gregor Wiedemann, Ahmad Hakimi, Gerhard Heyer and Martin Pot-
thast
13:40 -13:52Multilingual Counter Narrative Type Classification
Yi-Ling Chung, Marco Guerini and Rodrigo Agerri
13:52 -13:64Predicting Moderation of Deliberative Arguments: Is Argument Quality the Key?
Neele Falk, Iman Jundi, Eva Maria Vecchi and Gabriella Lapesa
14:04 -14:16Self-trained Pretrained Language Models for Evidence Detection
Mohamed Elaraby and Diane Litman
14:16 -14:28Multi-task Learning in Argument Mining for Persuasive Online Discussions
Nhat Tran and Diane Litman
14:30 -14:45Coffee Break
14:45 -16:15Panel Talks and Discussion
Khalid Al-Khatib, Yufang Hou, and Manfred Stede (ArgMining 2021 co-chairs) 16:15 -16:45 Coffee Break
", "html": null, "num": null, "type_str": "table", "text": "The ArgMining 2021 workshop program covered the Quantitative Summarization-Key Point Analysis Shared Task, and also featured a best paper award, thankfully sponsored by IBM. Both the shared task and award are announced on the official workshop website chaired by Roxanne El Baff: https://2021.argmining.org/." } } } }