Building an Argument Search Engine for the Web

verfasst von

Henning Wachsmuth, Martin Potthast, Khalid Al-Khatib, Yamen Ajjour, Jana Puschmann, Jiani Qu, Jonas Dorsch, Viorel Morari, Janek Bevendorff, Benno Stein

Abstract

Computational argumentation is expected to play a critical role in the future of web search. To make this happen, many searchrelated questions must be revisited, such as how people query for arguments, how to mine arguments from the web, or how to rank them. In this paper, we develop an argument search framework for studying these and further questions. The framework allows for the composition of approaches to acquiring, mining, assessing, indexing, querying, retrieving, ranking, and presenting arguments while relying on standard infrastructure and interfaces. Based on the framework, we build a prototype search engine, called args, that relies on an initial, freely accessible index of nearly 300k arguments crawled from reliable web resources. The framework and the argument search engine are intended as an environment for collaborative research on computational argumentation and its practical evaluation.

Externe Organisation(en)

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Typ

Aufsatz in Konferenzband

Seiten

49-59

Anzahl der Seiten

11

Publikationsdatum

09.2017

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Theoretische Informatik und Mathematik, Information systems, Angewandte Informatik

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W17-5106 (Zugang: Offen)