AM4DSP: Argumentation Mining in Structured Decentralized Discussion Platforms for Deliberative Democracy

Sofiane Elguendouze, Lucas Anastasiou, Erwan Hain, Elena Cabrio, Anna De Liddo, Serena Villata


Abstract
Argument(ation) mining (AM) is the automated process of identification and extraction of argumentative structures in natural language. This field has seen rapid advancements, offering powerful tools to analyze and interpret complex and large discourse in diverse domains (political debates, medical reports, etc.). In this paper we introduce an AM-boosted version of BCause, a large-scale deliberation platform.The system enables the extraction and analysis of arguments from online discussions in the context of deliberative democracy, which aims to enhance the understanding and accessibility of structured argumentation in large-scale deliberation processes.
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2025.emnlp-demos.61
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Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
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November
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2025
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Suzhou, China
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Ivan Habernal, Peter Schulam, Jörg Tiedemann
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EMNLP
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796–805
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Sofiane Elguendouze, Lucas Anastasiou, Erwan Hain, Elena Cabrio, Anna De Liddo, and Serena Villata. 2025. AM4DSP: Argumentation Mining in Structured Decentralized Discussion Platforms for Deliberative Democracy. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations, pages 796–805, Suzhou, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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