Experiments in automated support for argument reconstruction

  • Authors:
  • Radboud Winkels;Jochem Douw;Sara Veldhoen

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Amsterdam, Netherlands;University of Amsterdam, Netherlands;Utrecht University, Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

This paper describes the outcomes of experiments in automated support for argument reconstruction from natural language texts. We investigated several possibilities to support a manual process by using natural language processing, from classifying pieces of text as either argumentative or non-argumentative to clustering text fragments in the hope that these clusters would contain similar arguments. Results are diverse, but also show that we cannot come a long way without an extensive pre-tagged corpus.