Identifying Argumentative Questions in Web Search Logs
Yamen Ajjour, Pavel Braslavski, Alexander Bondarenko, Benno Stein · Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval · 2022
We present an approach to identify argumentative questions among web search queries. Argumentative questions ask for reasons to support a certain stance on a controversial topic, such as ''Should marijuana be legalized?'' Controversial topics entail opposing stances, and hence can be supported or opposed by various arguments. Argumentative questions pose a challenge for search engines since they should be answered with both pro and con arguments in order to not bias a user toward a certain stance.