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.
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2025.argmining-1.32
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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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ArgMining | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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332–339
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10.18653/v1/2025.argmining-1.32
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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.
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