Argchestrators at UZH Shared Task 2026: Efficient Argument Mining in UN Resolutions: A Sub-8B Pipeline using Agentic Debate and Heuristic Retrieval

Bogdan Octavian Grecu, Gerrit Quaremba, Elizabeth Black, Denny Vrandečić, Elena Simperl, Oana Cocarascu


Abstract
The highly formal and negotiated language of United Nations (UN) resolutions presents unique challenges for argument mining. This paper describes our system submitted to the ArgMining 2026 Shared Task: Reconstructing the Reasoning in United Nations Resolutions. Adhering to the strict constraint of utilising open-weight models with at most 8 billion parameters, we propose a hybrid, compute-efficient architecture powered by Qwen3-8B. For the preambular-operative classification, we implement a set of deterministic rules related to the specificity of UN documents, supplemented by an LLM-based multi-label classifier for thematic dimensions and a directed-graph extraction approach for argumentative relation prediction.
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2026.argmining-1.13
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Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Argument Mining and Reasoning
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July
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2026
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San Diego, California, USA
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Mohamed Elaraby, Annette Hautli-Janisz, Julia Romberg, Elena Musi, Federico Ruggeri, John Lawrence
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ArgMining | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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109–115
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Bogdan Octavian Grecu, Gerrit Quaremba, Elizabeth Black, Denny Vrandečić, Elena Simperl, and Oana Cocarascu. 2026. Argchestrators at UZH Shared Task 2026: Efficient Argument Mining in UN Resolutions: A Sub-8B Pipeline using Agentic Debate and Heuristic Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Argument Mining and Reasoning, pages 109–115, San Diego, California, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Argchestrators at UZH Shared Task 2026: Efficient Argument Mining in UN Resolutions: A Sub-8B Pipeline using Agentic Debate and Heuristic Retrieval (Grecu et al., ArgMining 2026)
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