DebArgVis: An Interactive Visualisation Tool for Exploring Argumentative Dynamics in Debate

Martin Gruber, Zlata Kikteva, Ignaz Rutter, Annette Hautli-Janisz


Abstract
Television debates play a key role in shaping public opinion, however, the rapid exchange of viewpoints in these settings often makes it difficult to perceive the underlying nature of the discussion. While there exist several debate visualisation techniques, to the best of our knowledge, none of them emphasise the argumentative dynamics in particular. With DebArgVis, we present a new interactive debate visualisation tool that leverages data annotated with argumentation structures to demonstrate how speaker interactions unfold over time, enabling users to deepen their comprehension of the debate.
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2025.argmining-1.13
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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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Association for Computational Linguistics
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140–146
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10.18653/v1/2025.argmining-1.13
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Martin Gruber, Zlata Kikteva, Ignaz Rutter, and Annette Hautli-Janisz. 2025. DebArgVis: An Interactive Visualisation Tool for Exploring Argumentative Dynamics in Debate. In Proceedings of the 12th Argument mining Workshop, pages 140–146, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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