Wednesday, 5th of June
| Time | Session |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Invited Talk AM-based decision making in the medical and political domains by Elena Cabrio |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 13:00 | Session on Argument Mining (Session Chair: Manfred Stede) Natural language hypotheses in scientific papers and how to tame them: Suggested steps for formalizing complex scientific claims (Tina Heger, Alsayed Algergawy, Marc Brinner, Jonathan M. Jeschke, Birgitta König-Ries, Daniel Mietchen and Sina Zarrieß) Weakly Supervised Claim Localization in Scientific Abstracts (Marc Felix Brinner, Sina Zarrieß and Tina Heger) Argument Mining of Attack and Support Patterns in Dialogical Conversations with Sequential Pattern Mining (Mattes Ruckdeschel and Gregor Wiedemann) Cluster-Specific Rule Mining for Argumentation-Based Classification (Jonas Klein, Isabelle Kuhlmann and Matthias Thimm) |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Session on Persuasion and Deliberation (Session Chair: Anette Frank) Automatic Analysis of Political Debates and Manifestos: Successes and Challenges (Tanise Ceron, Ana Barić, André Blessing, Sebastian Haunss, Jonas Kuhn, Gabriella Lapesa, Sebastian Pado, Sean Papay and Patricia Zauchner) PAKT: Perspectivized Argumentation Knowledge Graph and Tool for Deliberation Analysis (Moritz Plenz, Philipp Heinisch, Anette Frank and Philipp Cimiano) PolArg: Unsupervised Polarity Prediction of Arguments in Real-Time Online Conversations (Mirko Lenz and Ralph Bergmann) |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 – 18:00 | Session on Computational Models of Argumentation (Session Chair: Matthias Thimm) Enhancing Abstract Argumentation Solvers with Machine Learning-Guided Heuristics: A Feasibility Study (Sandra Hoffmann, Isabelle Kuhlmann and Matthias Thimm) Enhancing Argument Generation using Bayesian Networks (Yuan Cao, Rafael Fuchs and Anita Keshmirian) From Networks to Narratives: Bayes Nets and the problems of argumentation (Anita Keshmirian, Rafael Fuchs, Yuan Cao, Stephan Hartmann and Ulrike Hahn) Argumentation-based Probabilistic Causal Reasoning (Lars Bengel, Lydia Blümel, Tjitze Rienstra and Matthias Thimm) |
| 19:30 | Conference Dinner at Jivino Enoteca (Obernstr. 51, 33602 Bielefeld) |
Thursday, 6th of June
| Time | Session |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Invited Talk Empowering Scientific Discovery and Communication: Leveraging Computational Models to Decode Scholarly Documents by Yufang Hou |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 13:00 | Session on Argument Acquisition, Annotation and Evaluation (Session Chair: Philipp Cimiano) Are Large Language Models Reliable Argument Quality Annotators? (Nailia Mirzakhmedova, Marcel Gohsen, Chia Hao Chang and Benno Stein) Finding Argument Fragments on Social Media with Corpus Queries and LLMs (Nathan Dykes, Stephanie Evert, Philipp Heinrich, Merlin Humml and Lutz Schröder) The Impact of Argument Arrangement on Essay Scoring (René Knaebel, Robin Schaefer and Manfred Stede) “Do not disturb my circles!” Identifying the Type of Counterfactual at Hand (Moritz Willig, Matej Zečević and Kristian Kersting) |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Session on Interactive Argumentation, Recommendation and Personalization (Session Chair: Wolfgang Minker) BEA: Building Engaging Argumentation (Annalena Aicher, Klaus Weber, Elisabeth Andre, Wolfgang Minker and Stefan Ultes) Deciphering Personal Argument Styles — A Comprehensive Approach to Analyzing Linguistic Properties of Argument Preferences (Mark-Matthias Zymla, Raphael Buchmüller, Daniel A. Keim and Miriam Butt) Ranking Transition-based Medical Recommendations using Assumption-based Argumentation (Kenneth Skiba, Matthias Thimm and Johannes P. Wallner) |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 – 18:00 | Panel Session with Elena Cabrio Yufang Hou Henning Wachsmuth Julia Romberg Sebastian Haunss Paul Piwek |
| 19:30 | Conference Dinner at Numa (Obernstr. 26, 33602 Bielefeld) |
Friday, 7th of June
| Time | Session |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Invited Talk Argument Quality in Times of Large Language Models by Henning Wachsmuth |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 13:00 | Session on Argument Search and Retrieval (Session Chair: Benno Stein) Objective Argument Summarization in Search (Timon Ziegenbein, Shahbaz Syed, Martin Potthast and Henning Wachsmuth) Extending the Comparative Argumentative Machine: Multilingualism and Stance Detection (Irina Nikishina, Alexander Bondarenko, Sebastian Zaczek, Onno Lander Haag, Matthias Hagen and Chris Biemann) ArgServices: A Microservice-Based Architecture for Argumentation Machines (Mirko Lenz, Lorik Dumani, Ralf Schenkel and Ralph Bergmann) Closing |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch Break |