StateCloud at Critical Questions Generation: Prompt Engineering for Critical Question Generation

Jinghui Zhang, Dongming Yang, Binghuai Lin


Abstract
This paper presents StateCloud’s submission to the Critical Questions Generation (CQs-Gen) shared task at the Argument Mining Workshop 2025. To generate high-quality critical questions from argumentative texts, we propose a framework that combines prompt engineering with few-shot learning to effectively guide generative models. Additionally, we ensemble outputs from diverse large language models (LLMs) to enhance accuracy. Notably, our approach achieved 3rd place in the competition, demonstrating the viability of prompt engineering strategies for argumentative tasks.
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2025.argmining-1.24
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Proceedings of the 12th Argument mining Workshop
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July
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2025
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Vienna, Austria
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Elena Chistova, Philipp Cimiano, Shohreh Haddadan, Gabriella Lapesa, Ramon Ruiz-Dolz
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ArgMining | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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258–264
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Jinghui Zhang, Dongming Yang, and Binghuai Lin. 2025. StateCloud at Critical Questions Generation: Prompt Engineering for Critical Question Generation. In Proceedings of the 12th Argument mining Workshop, pages 258–264, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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