no code implementations • WS 2017 • Luca Lugini, Diane Litman
High quality classroom discussion is important to student development, enhancing abilities to express claims, reason about other students' claims, and retain information for longer periods of time.
no code implementations • WS 2018 • Luca Lugini, Diane Litman, Amanda Godley, Christopher Olshefski
Classroom discussions in English Language Arts have a positive effect on students' reading, writing and reasoning skills.
no code implementations • WS 2018 • Luca Lugini, Diane Litman
This paper focuses on argument component classification for transcribed spoken classroom discussions, with the goal of automatically classifying student utterances into claims, evidence, and warrants.
no code implementations • LREC 2020 • Christopher Olshefski, Luca Lugini, Ravneet Singh, Diane Litman, Amanda Godley
Although Natural Language Processing (NLP) research on argument mining has advanced considerably in recent years, most studies draw on corpora of asynchronous and written texts, often produced by individuals.
no code implementations • COLING 2020 • Luca Lugini, Christopher Olshefski, Ravneet Singh, Diane Litman, Amanda Godley
Teaching collaborative argumentation is an advanced skill that many K-12 teachers struggle to develop.
no code implementations • COLING 2020 • Luca Lugini, Diane Litman
Argument mining systems often consider contextual information, i. e. information outside of an argumentative discourse unit, when trained to accomplish tasks such as argument component identification, classification, and relation extraction.