Introduction

摘要

Argument mining (also, "argumentation mining") is a relatively new research field within the rapidly evolving area of Computational Argumentation. The tasks pursued within this field are highly challenging with many important practical applications. These include automatically identifying argumentative structures within discourse, e.g., premises, conclusion, and argumentation scheme of each argument, as well as relationships between pairs of arguments and their components. To date, researchers have investigated a plethora of methods to address these tasks in various areas, including legal documents, user generated Web discourse, on-line debates, product reviews, academic literature, newspaper articles, dialogical domains, and Wikipedia articles. Relevant manually annotated corpora are released at an increasing pace, further enhancing the research in the field. In addition, argument mining is inherently tied to sentiment analysis, since an argument frequently carries a clear sentiment towards its topic. Correspondingly, this year's workshop will be coordinated with the corresponding WASSA workshop, aiming to have a joint poster session.