Centre for Argument Technology
@arg-tech.bsky.social
ARG-tech is an interdisciplinary research centre taking philosophical, linguistic and cognitive theories of argumentation and developing them into theoretical and applied AI systems to model, support and enhance processes of argumentation and debate.
Chris is giving a lecture at the College of Philosophy, Nankai University this Friday at 4pm on "Ways of reasoning". If you're in the Beijing area, do think about coming along!
November 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Chris is giving a lecture at the College of Philosophy, Nankai University this Friday at 4pm on "Ways of reasoning". If you're in the Beijing area, do think about coming along!
At this week’s reading group we discussed the paper “CASA: Causality-driven Argument Sufficiency Assessment” by Xiao Liu, Yansong Feng, and Kai-Wei Chang. aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-l...
November 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
At this week’s reading group we discussed the paper “CASA: Causality-driven Argument Sufficiency Assessment” by Xiao Liu, Yansong Feng, and Kai-Wei Chang. aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-l...
Chris is at #EMNLP2025 presenting work with Yevhen Kostiuk and Clara Seyfried on Automating Alternative Generation in Decision-Making. Find him from 1300CST today in the poster session in Hall C.
November 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Chris is at #EMNLP2025 presenting work with Yevhen Kostiuk and Clara Seyfried on Automating Alternative Generation in Decision-Making. Find him from 1300CST today in the poster session in Hall C.
Kamila Górska and John Lawrence are at #ECAI2025 presenting their work on Argumentative Strategies and Forecasting Success, and DRACS: Diachronic Representation of Argument Construction Styles.
October 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Kamila Górska and John Lawrence are at #ECAI2025 presenting their work on Argumentative Strategies and Forecasting Success, and DRACS: Diachronic Representation of Argument Construction Styles.
This week, we discussed the paper "ImpScore: A Learnable Metric For Quantifying The Implicitness Level of Sentences" by Yuxin Wang et al., presenting an exciting method to move beyond semantic representations into indirect meaning. proceedings.iclr.cc/paper_files/...
October 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This week, we discussed the paper "ImpScore: A Learnable Metric For Quantifying The Implicitness Level of Sentences" by Yuxin Wang et al., presenting an exciting method to move beyond semantic representations into indirect meaning. proceedings.iclr.cc/paper_files/...
🎉 We are excited to present 'Argumentative Strategies and Forecasting Success’ at ECAI 2025! It investigates the role reasoning plays in predicting future events. If you are interested, read more details below! 👇 #ECAI2025 #Argumentation #Forecasting
October 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
🎉 We are excited to present 'Argumentative Strategies and Forecasting Success’ at ECAI 2025! It investigates the role reasoning plays in predicting future events. If you are interested, read more details below! 👇 #ECAI2025 #Argumentation #Forecasting
📢 Our PhD student Kamila will present her paper "Argumentative Strategies and Forecasting Success" on Monday 27th October at ECAI 2025!
⚡Lighning Talk: 12:49-12:51
📄Poster Session: 13:00-14:00 (board 1-29)
See you all in Bologna!
⚡Lighning Talk: 12:49-12:51
📄Poster Session: 13:00-14:00 (board 1-29)
See you all in Bologna!
October 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM
📢 Our PhD student Kamila will present her paper "Argumentative Strategies and Forecasting Success" on Monday 27th October at ECAI 2025!
⚡Lighning Talk: 12:49-12:51
📄Poster Session: 13:00-14:00 (board 1-29)
See you all in Bologna!
⚡Lighning Talk: 12:49-12:51
📄Poster Session: 13:00-14:00 (board 1-29)
See you all in Bologna!
📢 We are looking forward to presenting our paper "DRACS: Diachronic
Representation of Argument Construction Styles" by Yevhen Kostiuk, Chris Reed, John Lawrence on Monday 27th October at ECAI 2025. #ECAI2025 #Argumentation
⚡ Lighning Talk: 12:57-12:59
📄 Poster Session: 13:00-14:00 (board 2-157)
Representation of Argument Construction Styles" by Yevhen Kostiuk, Chris Reed, John Lawrence on Monday 27th October at ECAI 2025. #ECAI2025 #Argumentation
⚡ Lighning Talk: 12:57-12:59
📄 Poster Session: 13:00-14:00 (board 2-157)
October 23, 2025 at 9:02 AM
📢 We are looking forward to presenting our paper "DRACS: Diachronic
Representation of Argument Construction Styles" by Yevhen Kostiuk, Chris Reed, John Lawrence on Monday 27th October at ECAI 2025. #ECAI2025 #Argumentation
⚡ Lighning Talk: 12:57-12:59
📄 Poster Session: 13:00-14:00 (board 2-157)
Representation of Argument Construction Styles" by Yevhen Kostiuk, Chris Reed, John Lawrence on Monday 27th October at ECAI 2025. #ECAI2025 #Argumentation
⚡ Lighning Talk: 12:57-12:59
📄 Poster Session: 13:00-14:00 (board 2-157)
At this week’s reading group, we discussed the paper "On the Controllability of Large Language Models for Dialogue Interaction" by Nicolas Wagner and Stefan Ultes. aclanthology.org/2024.sigdial...
October 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
At this week’s reading group, we discussed the paper "On the Controllability of Large Language Models for Dialogue Interaction" by Nicolas Wagner and Stefan Ultes. aclanthology.org/2024.sigdial...
Today in our reading group we discussed the preprint, "The Thin Line Between Comprehension and Persuasion in LLMs", by Adrian de Wynter and Tangming Yuan, which annotates and evaluates debates with humans and LLMs.
September 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Today in our reading group we discussed the preprint, "The Thin Line Between Comprehension and Persuasion in LLMs", by Adrian de Wynter and Tangming Yuan, which annotates and evaluates debates with humans and LLMs.
📢 🎉 We're very happy to announce even more success for ARG-tech's researchers with a paper being accepted to the findings of #EMNLP2025! Congratulations to all authors! We're excited to see many of you in Suzhou, China this November 🇨🇳
August 25, 2025 at 10:49 AM
📢 🎉 We're very happy to announce even more success for ARG-tech's researchers with a paper being accepted to the findings of #EMNLP2025! Congratulations to all authors! We're excited to see many of you in Suzhou, China this November 🇨🇳
📣 🎉 We are excited to announce that two papers authored by ARG-tech members have been accepted to #ECAI2025! Congratulations to our amazing reserachers for this great success.
We're looking forward to seeing many of you in Bologna in October 🇮🇹
We're looking forward to seeing many of you in Bologna in October 🇮🇹
August 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
📣 🎉 We are excited to announce that two papers authored by ARG-tech members have been accepted to #ECAI2025! Congratulations to our amazing reserachers for this great success.
We're looking forward to seeing many of you in Bologna in October 🇮🇹
We're looking forward to seeing many of you in Bologna in October 🇮🇹
In this week's reading group, we discussed the paper "Can Large Language Models Understand Argument Schemes?" recently published at the Findings of the ACL 2025 by @elfiabv.bsky.social, Oana Cocarascu, and Sanjay Modgil.
aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
August 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
In this week's reading group, we discussed the paper "Can Large Language Models Understand Argument Schemes?" recently published at the Findings of the ACL 2025 by @elfiabv.bsky.social, Oana Cocarascu, and Sanjay Modgil.
aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
Chris led this week's reading group discussion on a detailed study about annotation error detection (aclanthology.org/2023.cl-1.4). We focused on exploring how well these techniques could generalize to handle data with inter-span relations, like corpora using eRST or those available at www.aifdb.org
August 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Chris led this week's reading group discussion on a detailed study about annotation error detection (aclanthology.org/2023.cl-1.4). We focused on exploring how well these techniques could generalize to handle data with inter-span relations, like corpora using eRST or those available at www.aifdb.org
At this week's reading group, we discussed the paper "Why human–AI relationships need socioaffective alignment" to look at the broader topic of social and emotional dynamics of human-AI interaction, and what this might mean for our own work. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 1, 2025 at 6:03 AM
At this week's reading group, we discussed the paper "Why human–AI relationships need socioaffective alignment" to look at the broader topic of social and emotional dynamics of human-AI interaction, and what this might mean for our own work. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We're looking forward to a busy and exciting week for our researchers presenting their amazing work at ACL 2025 in Vienna! 🎡
If you're not sure where and when to find us, check the schedule below! 👇
If you're not sure where and when to find us, check the schedule below! 👇
July 27, 2025 at 4:00 AM
We're looking forward to a busy and exciting week for our researchers presenting their amazing work at ACL 2025 in Vienna! 🎡
If you're not sure where and when to find us, check the schedule below! 👇
If you're not sure where and when to find us, check the schedule below! 👇
Many congratulations to @jooleahd.bsky.social who this afternoon successfully defended her PhD thesis, passing summa cum laude.
July 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Many congratulations to @jooleahd.bsky.social who this afternoon successfully defended her PhD thesis, passing summa cum laude.
⛏️ Last but not least in our series of presentations at ACL 2025 is the poster for "Practical Solutions for Practical Problems in Developing Argument Mining Systems" at the Workshop for Argument Mining on the 31st July 16:00-17:15 in Hall B!
See you in Vienna on Sunday! 🇦🇹
See you in Vienna on Sunday! 🇦🇹
July 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
⛏️ Last but not least in our series of presentations at ACL 2025 is the poster for "Practical Solutions for Practical Problems in Developing Argument Mining Systems" at the Workshop for Argument Mining on the 31st July 16:00-17:15 in Hall B!
See you in Vienna on Sunday! 🇦🇹
See you in Vienna on Sunday! 🇦🇹
💻 Only a few days to go until ACL 2025! We're thrilled to see you all next week at our demo poster of "The Open Argument Mining Framework" on Wednesday 30th July 11:00-12:30 in Hall 5X.
July 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
💻 Only a few days to go until ACL 2025! We're thrilled to see you all next week at our demo poster of "The Open Argument Mining Framework" on Wednesday 30th July 11:00-12:30 in Hall 5X.
⏳🎤 The countdown for ACL 2025 continues! Next up is Ramon's presentation of his paper "Mining Patterns of Complex Argumentative Reasoning in Natural Language Dialogue" on Tuesday 29th July 14:00-15:30 in Room 1.62.
We're looking forward to seeing many of you there!
We're looking forward to seeing many of you there!
July 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
⏳🎤 The countdown for ACL 2025 continues! Next up is Ramon's presentation of his paper "Mining Patterns of Complex Argumentative Reasoning in Natural Language Dialogue" on Tuesday 29th July 14:00-15:30 in Room 1.62.
We're looking forward to seeing many of you there!
We're looking forward to seeing many of you there!
📌 ACL 2025 is less than a week away and we're looking forward to seeing you at the poster for our paper "Natural Language Reasoning in Large Language Models: Analysis and Evaluation" on Monday 28th July 18:00-19:30 in Hall 4/5!
July 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
📌 ACL 2025 is less than a week away and we're looking forward to seeing you at the poster for our paper "Natural Language Reasoning in Large Language Models: Analysis and Evaluation" on Monday 28th July 18:00-19:30 in Hall 4/5!
🦓 🎤 Soon it's time to present our paper "Lexical Recall or Logical Reasoning: Probing the Limits of Reasoning Abilities in Large Language Models" at ACL 2025 in Vienna.
See you all at our presentation on Monday 28th July 14:00-15:30 in Room 1.15/16!
See you all at our presentation on Monday 28th July 14:00-15:30 in Room 1.15/16!
July 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
🦓 🎤 Soon it's time to present our paper "Lexical Recall or Logical Reasoning: Probing the Limits of Reasoning Abilities in Large Language Models" at ACL 2025 in Vienna.
See you all at our presentation on Monday 28th July 14:00-15:30 in Room 1.15/16!
See you all at our presentation on Monday 28th July 14:00-15:30 in Room 1.15/16!
👋 ACL 2025 is approaching and we're looking forward to seeing you at the poster presentation of "CU-MAM: Coherence-Driven Unified Macro-Structures for Argument Mining" on Monday 28th July 11-12:30 in Hall 4/5!
July 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
👋 ACL 2025 is approaching and we're looking forward to seeing you at the poster presentation of "CU-MAM: Coherence-Driven Unified Macro-Structures for Argument Mining" on Monday 28th July 11-12:30 in Hall 4/5!
📢 📄 We’re excited to share our new paper: Practical Solutions to Practical Problems in Developing Argument Mining Systems Argument Mining has long been one of the most promising frontiers in NLP.
July 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
📢 📄 We’re excited to share our new paper: Practical Solutions to Practical Problems in Developing Argument Mining Systems Argument Mining has long been one of the most promising frontiers in NLP.
On Wednesday, Clara @sey-clara.bksy.social gave a talk about their PhD research so far at the Experimental Psychological Society's meeting in Dundee, raising questions about what types of relationships matter in discourse comprehension.
July 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
On Wednesday, Clara @sey-clara.bksy.social gave a talk about their PhD research so far at the Experimental Psychological Society's meeting in Dundee, raising questions about what types of relationships matter in discourse comprehension.