Federico Ruggeri


2022

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Detecting Arguments in CJEU Decisions on Fiscal State Aid
Giulia Grundler | Piera Santin | Andrea Galassi | Federico Galli | Francesco Godano | Francesca Lagioia | Elena Palmieri | Federico Ruggeri | Giovanni Sartor | Paolo Torroni
Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Argument Mining

The successful application of argument mining in the legal domain can dramatically impact many disciplines related to law. For this purpose, we present Demosthenes, a novel corpus for argument mining in legal documents, composed of 40 decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union on matters of fiscal state aid. The annotation specifies three hierarchical levels of information: the argumentative elements, their types, and their argument schemes. In our experimental evaluation, we address 4 different classification tasks, combining advanced language models and traditional classifiers.

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Multimodal Argument Mining: A Case Study in Political Debates
Eleonora Mancini | Federico Ruggeri | Andrea Galassi | Paolo Torroni
Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Argument Mining

We propose a study on multimodal argument mining in the domain of political debates. We collate and extend existing corpora and provide an initial empirical study on multimodal architectures, with a special emphasis on input encoding methods. Our results provide interesting indications about future directions in this important domain.