Overview of Touché 2021

Argument retrieval

authored by

Alexander Bondarenko, Lukas Gienapp, Maik Fröbe, Meriem Beloucif, Yamen Ajjour, Alexander Panchenko, Chris Biemann, Benno Stein, Henning Wachsmuth, Martin Potthast, Matthias Hagen

Abstract

This paper is a report on the second year of the Touché shared task on argument retrieval held at CLEF 2021. With the goal to provide a collaborative platform for researchers, we organized two tasks: (1) supporting individuals in finding arguments on controversial topics of social importance and (2) supporting individuals with arguments in personal everyday comparison situations. Unlike in the first year, several of the 27 teams participating in the second year managed to submit approaches that improved upon argumentation-agnostic baselines for the two tasks. Most of the teams made use of last year's Touché data for parameter optimization and fine-tuning their best configurations.

External Organisation(s)

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Leipzig University
Universität Hamburg
Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Paderborn University

Type

Conference article

Journal

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volume

2936

Pages

2258-2284

No. of pages

27

ISSN

1613-0073

Publication date

2021

Publication status

Published

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Science(all)

Electronic version(s)

https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2936/paper-205.pdf (Access: Open)