Abstract
This paper is a condensed overview of Touché: the fourth edition of the lab on argument and causal retrieval that was held at CLEF 2023. With the goal to create a collaborative platform for research on computational argumentation and causality, we organized four shared tasks: (a) argument retrieval for controversial topics, where participants retrieve web documents that contain high-quality argumentation and detect the argument stance, (b) causal retrieval, where participants retrieve documents that contain causal statements from a generic web crawl and detect the causal stance, (c) image retrieval for arguments, where participants retrieve from a focused web crawl images showing support or opposition to some stance, and (d) multilingual multi-target stance classification, where participants detect the stance of comments on proposals from an online multilingual participatory democracy platform.
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The term ‘touché’ is commonly “used to acknowledge a hit in fencing or the success or appropriateness of an argument, an accusation, or a witty point.” [https://merriam-webster.com/dictionary/touche]
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Pre-trained model: https://huggingface.co/facebook/bart-large-cnn; minimum length: 64; maximum length: 256.
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Pre-trained model: https://huggingface.co/google/flan-t5-base; maximum generated tokens: 3; the prompt is given in Appendix A.
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Pre-trained model: https://huggingface.co/facebook/bart-large-cnn; minimum length: 64; maximum length: 256.
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Pre-trained model: https://huggingface.co/google/flan-t5-base; maximum generated tokens: 3; the prompt is given in Appendix A.
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As one of our suggested use case for image retrieval for arguments is getting a quick overview, we excluded overly large images.
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To sharpen our focus on images, this year we tried to exclude images that are actually screenshots of text documents.
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Archived using https://github.com/webis-de/scriptor
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Since no stance model convincingly outperformed naive baselines in their evaluation, we use the simple both-sides baseline that assigns each image to both stances.
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German, English, Greek, French, Italian, and Hungarian.
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roberta-base.
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xlm-roberta-large.
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bert-base-uncased.
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This work has been partially supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in the project “ACQuA 2.0: Answering Comparative Questions with Arguments” (project 376430233) as part of the priority program “RATIO: Robust Argumentation Machines” (SPP 1999). V. Barriere’s work was funded by the National Center for Artificial Intelligence CENIA FB210017, Basal ANID. This work has been partially supported by the OpenWebSearch.eu project (funded by the EU; GA 101070014).
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A Zero-Shot Prompts
The zero-shot prompts used for the stance prediction baselines are given in Listing 1 (for Task 1, see Sect. 3) and in Listing 2 (for Task 2, see Sect. 4).
B Full Evaluation Results of Touché 2023: Argument and Causal Retrieval
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Bondarenko, A. et al. (2023). Overview of Touché 2023: Argument and Causal Retrieval. In: Arampatzis, A., et al. Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction. CLEF 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14163. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42448-9_31
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