Argument Mining by Mathilde Janier & Patrick Saint-Dizier

Author:Mathilde Janier & Patrick Saint-Dizier [Janier, Mathilde & Saint-Dizier, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781119671046
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2019-10-05T00:00:00+00:00

In this example, the speaker (i.e. the moderator) introduces the panelists who will participate in the debate. Defining whether this move has an argumentative function or not is a tricky task. Intuitively, and without any context, this move does not seem to have an argumentative function since it does not help the speaker build an argument and it is not attacked. Although it would seem irrelevant and unreasonable to attack this move (i.e. to provide counterarguments), an opponent could, theoretically, disagree with the sentence, or parts of it. For instance, s/he could disagree that Kenan Malik is a science historian.

Nevertheless, determining whether a move plays a role in the argument cannot rely on intuition. Note that a proposition can be considered as a simple fact when it has no support or attack and if it does not contain an evaluative element. For instance, “Nice is a city in southern France” is not a claim, while “Nice is a sunny city” is a claim: sunny is a scalable evaluative element (see section 3.1) and, although no supporting claim is provided, one can imagine that the utterer may provide a premise or else a listener may attack it. Manually segmenting a text into ADUs may represent the first and most complex task of argument analysis. Let us now have a look at another example:

Vaccines have allowed reducing the number of deaths. Not just in Africa but worldwide.

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