Annotation and Detection of Arguments in Tweets

Robin Schaefer, Manfred Stede


Abstract
Notwithstanding the increasing role Twitter plays in modern political and social discourse, resources built for conducting argument mining on tweets remain limited. In this paper, we present a new corpus of German tweets annotated for argument components. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first corpus containing not only annotated full tweets but also argumentative spans within tweets. We further report first promising results using supervised classification (F1: 0.82) and sequence labeling (F1: 0.72) approaches.
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2020.argmining-1.6
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Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Argument Mining
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December
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2020
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Online
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ArgMining
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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53–58
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.argmining-1.6
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Robin Schaefer and Manfred Stede. 2020. Annotation and Detection of Arguments in Tweets. In Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Argument Mining, pages 53–58, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Annotation and Detection of Arguments in Tweets (Schaefer & Stede, ArgMining 2020)
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Code
 robinschaefer/climate-tweet-corpus