Program
MONDAY 21/07
8:45-9:00 Opening session
9:00-10:00 Mini-tutorial Discourse/Pragmatics (Alexis Palmer)
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:30 Mini-tutorial Semantics (Bernardo Magnini)
11:30-12:30 Mini-tutorial Sentiment Analysis (Claire Cardie)
12:30-14:30 Lunch time
14:30-15:30 Mini-tutorial Abstract argumentation (Massimiliano Giacomin)
15:30-16:30 Mini-tutorial Structured argumentation (Antony Hunter)
16:30-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-18:00 Mini-tutorial Philosophical argumentation (Fabio Paglieri)
TUESDAY 22/07
9-10:30 Presentations (chair: Adam)
- Elena Cabrio and Serena Villata. Natural Language Arguments: A Combined Approach
- Ido Dagan, Bernardo Magnini. Textual Entailment Graphs for Argumentation and Supporting Technology
- Noam Slonim. The Argument Construction Engine/ Context Dependent Claim Detection
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Presentations (chair: Elena)
- Manfred Stede Finding and representing argumentation in newspapers
- Ivan Habernal, Judith Eckle-Kohler and Iryna Gurevych. Argumentation Mining on the Web from an Information Seeking Perspective
- Adam Wyner. Mining Fine-grained Argument Elements
12:30-14:30 Lunch time
14:30-16:00 Presentation (chair: Serena)
- Steffen Staab. Government-citizen dialogue in eParticipation: Some methods and tools to improve understanding
- Kevin Ashley. Applying Argument Extraction to Improve Legal Information Retrieval
- Michal Araszkiewicz and Agata Łopatkiewicz. Legal Argumentation Concerning Almost Identical Expressions (AIE) in Statutory Texts
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:30 Working groups
- Argumentation, discourse and dialogue (leaders: Iryna Gurevych and Nancy Green)
- Argumentation and semantics (leaders: Ido Dagan and Tony Hunter)
WEDNESDAY 23/07
9-10:30 Presentations (chair: Elena)
- Stergos Afantenos and Nicholas Asher. Counter-Argumentation and Discourse: A Case Study
- Christian Stab, Christian Kirschner, Judith Eckle-Kohler and Iryna Gurevych. Argumentation Mining in Persuasive Essays and Scientific Articles from the Discourse Structure Perspective
- Alexis Palmer. Situation Entities and Discourse Modes
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Presentations (chair: Serena)
- Massimiliano Giacomin. On the summarization of abstract argumentation frameworks
- Joao Leite. On Social Abstract Argumentation and its possible connections with NLP
- Pietro Baroni, Massimiliano Giacomin, Beishui Liao and Leon van der Torre. Encompassing uncertainty in argumentation schemes
12:30-14:30 Lunch time
14:30-23:00 Social event
THURSDAY 24/07
9-10:30 Presentations (chair: Serena)
- Danushka Bollegala and Simon Parsons. Argument mining for decision support
- Fabio Paglieri. An Argument in a Haystack: What Do We Need for Better Argumentative Analysis?
- Graeme Hirst, Vanessa Wei Feng, Christopher Cochrane and Nona Naderi. Argumentation, Ideology, and Issue Framing in Parliamentary Discourse
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Presentations (chair: Adam)
- Anthony Hunter. Mind the Gap! Handling of enthymemes is a critical step in formalizing natural language arguments
- Floris Bex and Trevor Bench-Capon. Understanding narratives with argumentation
- Ariel Rosenfeld and Sarit Kraus. Providing Arguments in Discussions Based on the Prediction of Human Argumentative Behavior
12:30-14:30 Lunch time
14:30-16:00 Presentations (chair: Elena)
- Simone Teufel. The Relation of Citation Networks and Scientific Argumentation
- Nancy Green. Argumentation for Scientific Claims in a Biomedical Research Article
- Jodi Schneider. Evidence Informatics: Modeling Evidence in Social Media and Biomedical Papers
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-17:30 Working groups
- Argumentation, discourse and dialogue (leaders: Iryna Gurevych and Nancy Green)
- Argumentation and semantics (leaders: Ido Dagan and Tony Hunter)
FRIDAY 25/07
9-10:30 Panel (working group leaders) (chair: Adam)
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Closing remarks
12:00-14:00 Lunch time