@inproceedings{alhindi-ghosh-2021-sharks,
    title = "``Sharks are not the threat humans are'': Argument Component Segmentation in School Student Essays",
    author = "Alhindi, Tariq  and
      Ghosh, Debanjan",
    editor = "Burstein, Jill  and
      Horbach, Andrea  and
      Kochmar, Ekaterina  and
      Laarmann-Quante, Ronja  and
      Leacock, Claudia  and
      Madnani, Nitin  and
      Pil{\'a}n, Ildik{\'o}  and
      Yannakoudakis, Helen  and
      Zesch, Torsten",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications",
    month = apr,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2021.bea-1.22/",
    pages = "210--222",
    abstract = "Argument mining is often addressed by a pipeline method where segmentation of text into argumentative units is conducted first and proceeded by an argument component identification task. In this research, we apply a token-level classification to identify claim and premise tokens from a new corpus of argumentative essays written by middle school students. To this end, we compare a variety of state-of-the-art models such as discrete features and deep learning architectures (e.g., BiLSTM networks and BERT-based architectures) to identify the argument components. We demonstrate that a BERT-based multi-task learning architecture (i.e., token and sentence level classification) adaptively pretrained on a relevant unlabeled dataset obtains the best results."
}