Friday, 12 August 2016
09:00-09:10 Welcome
09:10-10:30 Session I
09:10-09:30 Aseel Adwood and Masooda Bashir – “What Is Your Evidence?” A Study of Controversial Topics in Social Media
09:30-09:50 Emma Barker and Robert Gaizauskas – Summarizing Multi-Party Argumentative Conversations in Reader Comment News
09:50-10:10 Maria Becker, Alexis Palmer and Anette Frank – Argumentative texts and clause types
10:10-10:30 Pavithra Rajendran, Danushka Bollegala and Simon Parsons – Contextual stance classification of opinions: A step towards enthymeme reconstruction in online reviews
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Session II
11:00-11:20 Rory Duthie, John Lawrence, Katarzyna Budzynska and Chris Reed – The CASS Technique for Evaluating the Performance of Argument Mining
11:20-11:40 Jaromir Savelka and Kevin D. Ashley – Extracting Case Law Sentences for Argumentation about the Meaning of Statutory Terms
11:40-12:00 Angrosh Mandya, Advaith Siddharthan and Adam Wyner – Scrutable Feature Sets for Stance Classification
12:00-12:15 Beata Beigman Klebanov, Christian Stab, Jill Burstein, Yi Song, Binod Gyawali and Iryna Gurevych – Argumentation: Content, Structure, and Relationship with Essay Quality
12:15 -12:30 Yuta Koreeda, Toshihiko Yanase, Kohsuke Yanai, Misa Sato and Yoshiki Niwa – Neural Attention Model for Classification of Sentences that Support Promoting/Suppressing Relationship
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Session III
14:00-14:20 Elena Musi, Debanjan Ghosh and Smaranda Muresan – Towards Feasible Guidelines for the Annotation of Argument Schemes
14:20-14:40 Georgios Petasis and Vangelis Karkaletsis – Identifying Argument Components through TextRank
14:40-15:00 Andreas Peldszus and Manfred Stede – Rhetorical structure and argumentation structure in monologue text
15:00-15:15 Christian Stab and Iryna Gurevych – Recognizing the Absence of Opposing Arguments in Persuasive Essays
15:15-15:30 Orith Toledo-Ronen, Roy Bar-Haim and Noam Slonim – Expert Stance Graphs for Computational Argumentation
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Session IV – Debating Technologies and the Unshared Task Panel
16:00-16:20 Filip Boltuzic and Jan SĚŚnajder – Fill the Gap! Analyzing Implicit Premises between Claims from Online Debates
16:20-16:40 Charlie Egan, Advaith Siddharthan and Adam Wyner – Summarising the points made in online political debates
16:40-17:00 Matthias Liebeck, Katharina Esau and Stefan Conrad – What to Do with an Airport? Mining Arguments in the German Online Participation Project Tempelhofer Feld
17:00-17:25 Panel Discussion: Unshared Task
Maria Skeppstedt, Magnus Sahlgren, Carita Paradis and Andreas Kerren – Unshared task: (Dis)agreement in online debates
Chantal van Son, Tommaso Caselli, Antske Fokkens, Isa Maks, Roser Morante, Lora Aroyo and Piek Vossen – Unshared Task: Perspective Based Local Agreement and Disagreement in Online Debate
Zhongyu Wei, Yandi Xia, Chen Li, Yang Liu, Zachary Stallbohm, Yi Li and Yang Jin – Unshared Task: A Preliminary Study of Disputation Behavior in Online Debating Forum
17:25-17:30 Closing Remarks
17:30 Close
(All long papers have 15 minutes for presentation plus 5 minutes for questions; short papers have 10 minutes for presentation plus 5 minutes for questions; panel contributions should be 5 minutes of presentation with cross-panel discussion of 10 minutes)