Mind_Matrix at CQs-Gen 2025: Adaptive Generation of Critical Questions for Argumentative Interventions
Sha Newaz Mahmud, Shahriar Hossain, Samia Rahman, Momtazul Arefin Labib, Hasan Murad
Abstract
To encourage computational argumentation through critical question generation (CQs-Gen),we propose an ACL 2025 CQs-Gen shared task system to generate critical questions (CQs) with the best effort to counter argumentative text by discovering logical fallacies, unjustified assertions, and implicit assumptions.Our system integrates a quantized language model, semantic similarity analysis, and a meta-evaluation feedback mechanism including the key stages such as data preprocessing, rationale-augmented prompting to induce specificity, diversity filtering for redundancy elimination, enriched meta-evaluation for relevance, and a feedback-reflect-refine loop for iterative refinement. Multi-metric scoring guarantees high-quality CQs. With robust error handling, our pipeline ranked 7th among 15 teams, outperforming baseline fact-checking approaches by enabling critical engagement and successfully detecting argumentative fallacies. This study presents an adaptive, scalable method that advances argument mining and critical discourse analysis.- Anthology ID:
- 2025.argmining-1.32
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 12th Argument mining Workshop
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2025
- Address:
- Vienna, Austria
- Editors:
- Elena Chistova, Philipp Cimiano, Shohreh Haddadan, Gabriella Lapesa, Ramon Ruiz-Dolz
- Venues:
- ArgMining | WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 332–339
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/2025.argmining-1.32/
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2025.argmining-1.32
- Cite (ACL):
- Sha Newaz Mahmud, Shahriar Hossain, Samia Rahman, Momtazul Arefin Labib, and Hasan Murad. 2025. Mind_Matrix at CQs-Gen 2025: Adaptive Generation of Critical Questions for Argumentative Interventions. In Proceedings of the 12th Argument mining Workshop, pages 332–339, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Mind_Matrix at CQs-Gen 2025: Adaptive Generation of Critical Questions for Argumentative Interventions (Mahmud et al., ArgMining 2025)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/2025.argmining-1.32.pdf