Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to participate in the First Workshop on Argumentation
Knowledge Graphs (ArgKG) to be held on October 8 at AKBC 2021 (
https://www.akbc.ws/2021/)
The inaugural ArgKG 2021 workshop will consist of invited presentations,
panel discussions, and paper/poster presentations.
Website: https://argkg21.argmining.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/argkgworkshop
Overview
Knowledge graphs (KGs) have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness on
various knowledge-intensive computational tasks in a range of domains,
including journalism and science. Most work on the automatic construction
of KGs has focused narrowly on extracting factual assertions from the
source material, ignoring an important dimension--argumentation. Many texts
that communicate factual knowledge couch that knowledge in argument, in
language that asserts, interprets, and reasons. Arguments are an essential
means for forming stances on controversial topics, arriving at successful
decisions in the face of uncertainty, and establishing consensus on
problems that require interpretation. An active research community has
investigated computational models of textual argumentation. Still, many
important questions lack concrete answers, including the best approaches to
formalizing argumentation as a graph, deploying such graphs at scale, and
integrating argumentative knowledge with factual knowledge typically found
in KGs.
This inaugural workshop on Argumentative Knowledge Graphs (ArgKG) will
explore the automatic construction of KGs that encode argumentative
knowledge and structures as well as the incorporation of argumentation into
factual knowledge graphs, drawing together researchers focusing on NLP,
automatic KG construction, and computational analysis of argumentation.
Topics of Interest
The topics for submissions include but are not limited to:
* Argumentation knowledge graph (ArgKG) design, construction, and
evaluation
* Applications of ArgKG to different tasks such as question answering,
machine-reading and reasoning, legal case analysis, search and retrieval,
argument quality assessment, and argument generation
* Systems and toolkits for building, maintaining, and using ArgKGs
* Augmentation of traditional general-purpose KGs with argumentation
knowledge
* Relation between argumentation knowledge and other kinds of knowledge
such as common sense.
* Visualization and exploratory analysis of ArgKG
* Alternative (e.g., deep learning) representations of argumentation
knowledge
Article Contributions
We invite the submission of papers and abstracts describing previously
unpublished research, including new methodology, datasets, evaluations,
surveys, reproduced results, negative results, and visionary positions.
Full Papers:
Papers are non-archival, with the flexibility to submit in any venue in
addition to the ArgKB workshop. Accepted papers will be listed on the
workshop schedule, and their full texts will be published in OpenReview. We
invite papers of all types, including mature works, late-breaking results,
work-in-progress, and position papers. Articles under review in other
venues are also welcome if that is permissible. Papers should be restricted
to 10 single-column pages, excluding references. Appendices should be put
after references and submitted in one PDF document. Like main submissions,
supplementary material must be anonymized.
Extended Abstracts:
We welcome submissions of extended abstracts (2 pages max) related to the
research topics mentioned above. Submissions may include previously
published results, late-breaking results, and work in progress. Extended
abstracts can summarize existing work, work in progress, or a collection of
works under a unified theme (e.g., a series of closely related papers that
build on each other or tackle a common problem). Abstracts will be lightly
reviewed to ensure that the topic is within the scope of the workshop. The
abstracts are non-archival; participants are free to also submit their work
for publication elsewhere. Figures and tables will count toward the length
limit while references are excluded. Similar to full papers, extended
abstracts should be anonymous during submission.
Important Dates
* Call for Papers: July 6, 2021
** Paper/Abstract Submission Deadline: September 10, 2021 *
* Notification of workshop paper/abstract acceptance: September 25,
2021
* Camera-ready Submission Deadline: October 2, 2021
* Workshop: October 8, 2021
*** All submission deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (“Anywhere on Earth”)
Submission Information
* Please use the AKBC 2021 submission template
https://www.akbc.ws/2021/cfp/
* Details on submission are available in our ArgKG OpenReview
Submission site https://openreview.net/group?id=AKBC.ws/2021/Workshop/ArgKG
Organizers
* Khalid Al-Khatib, Leipzig University, Germany
* Tirthankar Ghosal, Charles University, Czech Republic
* Yufang Hou, IBM Research, Ireland
* Dayne Freitag, SRI International, US
* Anita de Waard, Elsevier, US
***Contact: argkg@googlegroups.com ***
Best regards,
Tirthankar
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Tirthankar Ghosal https://elitr.eu/tirthankar-ghosal/
Researcher, EU 2020 ELITR https://elitr.eu
*Institute *of Formal and Applied Linguistics
https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/home-page
Charles University, Prague https://cuni.cz/uken-1.html
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