arrow
Return

Topic-dependent relation prediction in argument mining: ternary classification

delete2025-08-25
delete0
PRE
AI
F
Federico M. Schmidt *
S
Sebastián Gottifredi
A
Alejandro Javier García
DOI:10.1007/s10115-025-02573-5delete
deleteOriginal
deleteOriginal request for help
deleteShare
deleteSave
Abstract

Abstract

En 中文
The automatic identification of interactions among arguments expressed in natural language is a complex task that is mandatory for applications that need automatic argumentative reasoning. In this work, we focus on the prediction of relations between arguments, aiming to determine how a piece of text interacts with a specific discussion topic. Specifically, we aim to identify whether the text attacks, supports, or remains neutral toward a given topic. We frame this problem as a ternary classification task, and evaluate several methods for addressing it, including methods based on the combination of binary classifiers, models following a multitask learning approach, and large language models using prompting strategies. All our experiments were performed in a cross-topic scenario using two corpora, one of which includes more than 300 discussion topics, which brings our approach closer to a real-world scenario.
Keywords:
Argumentation Mining
Relation prediction
Ternary classification
Natural language processing

Journal

Knowledge and Information Systems cover
Knowledge and Information Systems
IF:
3.1
Papers:
533
Citations:
5.2K

Organization

I
Institute for Computer Science and Engineering
Scholars:
3
Papers: 1
Citations: 0