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Argument Mining

9-10 Jul 2014
Dundee, Scotland

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION:

Workshop on Argument Mining: Perspectives from Information Extraction, 
Information Retrieval and Computational Linguistics 9-10 July 2014, 
Dundee, SCOTLAND

http://www.arg.dundee.ac.uk/swam2014
(DEADLINE: 15:06:2014)

Submissions of position statement are invited for the SICSA Workshop on 
Argument Mining to be held in Dundee, Scotland.

Argument mining exploits the techniques and methods of natural language 
processing, or more specifically ? text and opinion mining, for 
semi-automatic and automatic recognition and extraction of structured 
argument data from unstructured natural language texts. Lying at the 
intersection of sentiment analysis and computational models of argument, 
it is attracting increasing attention with an ACL workshop on the topic in 
Baltimore (http://www.uncg.edu/cmp/ArgMining2014/) and a meeting dedicated 
to the topic in Warsaw (http://argdiap.pl/argdiap2014).

The SICSA Workshop on Argument Mining aims to bridge the gap between 
argument mining and well-established areas of information extraction (IE), 
information retrieval (IR) and computational linguistics (CS). The 
workshop will be opened by the talk given by Prof. Marie-Francine Moens, 
Katholieke Universiteit (KU), Leuven, Belgium (SICSA Distinguished 
Visiting Fellow).

The first day of the workshop will be arranged around the short 
presentations from each contributor on argument mining from their own 
research perspective. The second day will be divided into working sessions 
during which participants will draft a joint paper on argument mining and 
its connections to IE, IR and CS. Our aim will be to use the draft as a 
basis for a submission to a journal.

In order to participate, attendees are asked to submit an abstract with a 
position statement no later than 15 June 2014 (see below for more 
details). The event is hosted by the Argumentation Research Group, 
ARG:dundee http://www.arg.dundee.ac.uk/, and is supported by the Scottish 
Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA).

--- Participation

Contributors may submit a position statement (500--1,000 words) on 
argument mining from their own research perspective. Abstracts should give 
full names and contact details for all authors and should be submitted in 
PDF format by email to Katarzyna Budzynska: budzynska.argdiap at 
gmail.com, no later than 15 June 2014.

Admission is free, however, for organizational purposes please register 
your intention to attend the workshop. To confirm your attendance, you 
need to send an email to John Lawrence: johnlawrence at 
computing.dundee.ac.uk, no later than 30 June.

--- Important Dates

Abstract deadline: 15 June 2014
Confirmation of attendance: 30 June 2014
Workshop: 9-10 July 2014

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Organization

The workshop is organized by the Argumentation Research Group, ARG:dundee 
http://www.arg.dundee.ac.uk/ and led by Katarzyna Budzynska: 
budzynska.argdiap at gmail.com, and John Lawrence: johnlawrence at 
computing.dundee.ac.uk