Analyzing Argumentative Discourse Units in Online Interactions
Debanjan Ghosh, Smaranda Muresan, Nina Wacholder, Mark A. Aakhus, Matthew Ryan Mitsui · 2014
Argument mining of online interactions is in its infancy. One reason is the lack of annotated corpora in this genre. To make progress, we need to develop a principled and scalable way of determining which portions of texts are argumentative and what is the nature of argumentation. We propose a two-tiered approach to achieve this goal and report on several initial stud-ies to assess its potential. 1