Recent Publications

2021

R. Agarwal, A. Koniaev, and R. Schaefer. Exploring Argument Retrieval for Controversial Questions Using Retrieve and Re-rank Pipelines. In Working Notes of CLEF 2021 -Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, CLEF and CEUR-WS.org. 2021. To appear. [Bibtex]
Anastasia Linnik, Roelien Bastiaanse, Manfred Stede, and Mariya Khudyakova. Linguistic mechanisms of coherence in aphasic and non-aphasic discourse. Aphasiology, 2021. [Bibtex] [DOI]
Robin Schaefer. Building an argument mining pipeline for tweets. In Online Handbook of Argumentation for AI: Volume 2. 2021. URL: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.10832.pdf, arXiv:2106.10832. [Bibtex]
R. Schaefer and M. Stede. Argument Mining on Twitter: A survey. it - information technology, 63(1):45–58, 2021. URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/itit-2020-0053. [Bibtex]
Manfred Stede. Perspektiven auf Kontraste. Eine Korpusstudie zu Kohärenzrelationen und ihren Operationsebenen. In H.W. Giessen and H-H. Lüger, editors, Text-, Diskurs- und Kommunikationsforschung. Festschrift für Hartmut Lenk. Verlag Empirische Pädagogik, Landau, 2021. [Bibtex]
M. Stede and R. Patz. The climate change debate and natural language processing. In Proc. of the 1st Workshop on NLP for positive impact (ACL). Online, 2021. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Peter Wulff, David Buschhüter, Andrea Westphal, Anna Nowak, Lisa Becker, Hugo Robalino, Manfred Stede, and Andreas Borowski. Computer-Based Classification of Preservice Physics Teachers’ Written Reflections. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 30:1–15, 2021. URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10956-020-09865-1. [Bibtex] [DOI]
Mohammad Yeghaneh Abkenar, Manfred Stede, and Stephan Oepen. Neural Argumentation Mining on Essays and Microtexts with Contextualized Word Embeddings. In Proceedings of the 6th Swiss Text Analytics Conference. June 2021. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Peter Bourgonje. Shallow Discourse Parsing for German PhD thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2021. (submitted July 22, 2020; defended April 16, 2021). URL: https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-50663. [Bibtex] [PDF]
L. Glaser, R. Patz, and M. Stede. UNSC-NE: A Named Entity Extension to the UN Security Council Debates Corpus. In KONVENS workshop on Computational Linguistics for Political Text Analysis (cpss). 2021. [Bibtex] [PDF]
F. Hewett and M. Stede. Automatically evaluating the conceptual complexity of German texts. In Proc. of KONVENS 2021. Düsseldorf, 2021. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Neslihan Iskender, Robin Schaefer, Tim Polzehl, and Sebastian Möller. Argument Mining in Tweets: Comparing Crowd and Expert Annotations for Automated Claim and Evidence Detection. In H. Horacek E. Métais, F. Meziane and E. Kapetanios, editors, Natural Language Processing and Information Systems (NLDB), Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Cham, June 2021. [Bibtex] [DOI]
R. Schaefer and M. Stede. UPAppliedCL at GermEval 2021: Identifying Fact-Claiming and Engaging Facebook Comments Using Transformers. In Proc. of the GermEval2021 "Toxic" at KONVENS. Düsseldorf, 2021. To appear. [Bibtex]

2020

Yannic Bracke. Automatic text classification with imbalanced data: Building a frame classifier from a corpus of editorials. Unpublished B.Sc. Thesis, 2020. [Bibtex]
Yulia Clausen and Tatjana Scheffler. A corpus-based analysis of meaning variations in German tag questions. Evidence from spoken and written conversational corpora. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 2020. URL: https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/cllt.ahead-of-print/cllt-2019-0060/cllt-2019-0060.xml. [Bibtex]
S. Just, E. Haegert, N. Koranova, A. Bröcker, I. Nenchev, J. Funcke, A. Heinz, F. Bempohl, M. Stede, and C. Montag. Modeling Incoherent Discourse in Non-Affective Psychosis. Frontiers in Psychiatry / Schizophrenia, 2020. URL: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00846/full. [Bibtex]
Manfred Stede. Automatic argumentation mining and the role of stance and sentiment. Journal of Argumentation in Context, 9(1):19–41, 2020. [Bibtex] [DOI]
M. Stede. From Connectives to Coherence Relations: A Case Study of German Contrastive Connectives. Revue roumaine de linguistique, LXV(3):213–233, 2020. URL: https://www.lingv.ro/images/RRL%203%202020%2003-STEDE.pdf. [Bibtex]
Deniz Zeyrek, Amália Mendes, Yulia Grishina, Murathan Kurfalı, Samuel Gibbon, and Maciej Ogrodniczuk. TED Multilingual Discourse Bank (TED-MDB): a parallel corpus annotated in the PDTB style. Language Resources and Evaluation, 54:587–613, 06 2020. URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10579-019-09445-9. [Bibtex] [DOI]
Berfin Aktaş, Veronika Solopova, Annalena Kohnert, and Manfred Stede. Adapting Coreference Resolution to Twitter Conversations. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020. Online, 2020. Association for Computational Linguistics. [Bibtex] [DOI] [PDF]
Berfin Aktaş and Annalena Kohnert. TwiConv: A Coreference-annotated Corpus of Twitter Conversations. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference (CRAC@COLING), 47–54. Barcelona, Spain, December 2020. Association for Computational Linguistics. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Berfin Aktaş and Manfred Stede. Variation in Coreference Strategies across Genres and Production Media. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Barcelona, Spain (Online), December 2020. International Committee on Computational Linguistics. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Peter Bourgonje and Manfred Stede. Exploiting a lexical resource for discourse connective disambiguation in German. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 5737–5748. Barcelona, Spain (Online), December 2020. International Committee on Computational Linguistics. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Peter Bourgonje and Manfred Stede. The Potsdam Commentary Corpus 2.2: Extending Annotations for Shallow Discourse Parsing. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020). Marseille, France, May 2020. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [Bibtex] [PDF]
Peter Bourgonje and Manfred Stede. Topics and Subjects in German Newspaper Editorials: A Corpus Study. In Anke Holler, Katja Suckow, and Israel de la Fuente, editors, Information Structuring in Discourse, volume 40 of Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2020. [Bibtex] [DOI]
Debopam Das, Manfred Stede, Soumya Sankar Ghosh, and Lahari Chatterjee. DiMLex-Bangla: A Lexicon of Bangla Discourse Connectives. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020). Marseille, France, May 2020. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [Bibtex] [PDF]
René Knaebel and Manfred Stede. Contextualized Embeddings for Connective Disambiguation in Shallow Discourse Parsing. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse, 65–75. Online, November 2020. Association for Computational Linguistics. [Bibtex] [DOI] [PDF]
René Knaebel and Manfred Stede. Semi-Supervised Tri-Training for Explicit Discourse Argument Expansion. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020). Marseille, France, May 2020. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [Bibtex] [PDF]
Robin Schäfer and Manfred Stede. Annotation and detection of arguments in tweets. In Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Argument Mining, 53–58. Online, December 2020. Association for Computational Linguistics. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Henny Sluyter-Gäthje, Peter Bourgonje, and Manfred Stede. Shallow Discourse Parsing for Under-Resourced Languages: Combining Machine Translation and Annotation Projection. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2020). Marseille, France, May 2020. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [Bibtex] [PDF]

2019

Berfin Aktaş, Tatjana Scheffler, and Manfred Stede. Coreference in English OntoNotes: Properties and Genre Differences. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue. Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2019. URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-27947-9_15. [Bibtex]
Peter Bourgonje and Robin Schäfer. Multi-lingual and Cross-genre Discourse Unit Segmentation. In Proc. of the Workshop on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking at NAACL. Minneapolis, MN, 2019. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Peter Bourgonje and Manfred Stede. Explicit Discourse Argument Extraction for German. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue. Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2019. URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-27947-9_3. [Bibtex]
Peter Bourgonje and Olha Zolotarenko. Toward Cross-theory Discourse Relation Annotation. In Proc. of the Workshop on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking at NAACL. Minneapolis, MN, 2019. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Freya Hewett, Roshan Prakash Rane, Nina Harlacher, and Manfred Stede. The utility of discourse parsing features for predicting argumentation structure. In Proc. of the 6th Workshop on Argument Mining at ACL. Florence, Italy, 2019. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Nina Hosseini-Kivanani, Juan Camilo Vásquez-Correa, Manfred Stede, and Elmar Nöth. Automated Cross-language Intelligibility Analysis of Parkinson's Disease Patients Using Speech Recognition Technologies (Research Proposal). In Proc. of the ACL Student Research Workshop. Florence, Italy, 2019. [Bibtex] [PDF]
S. Just, E. Haegert, N. Koránová, A. Bröcker, I. Nenchev, J. Funcke, C. Montag, and M. Stede. Coherence models in schizophrenia. In Proc. of CLPSYCH, Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology Workshop at NAACL. Minneapolis, MN, 2019. [Bibtex] [PDF]
René Knaebel, Manfred Stede, and Sebastian Stober. Window-Based Neural Tagging for Shallow Discourse Argument Labeling. In Proc. of the 23rd Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2019). 2019. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Ivan Namor, Pietro Totis, Samuele Garda, and Manfred Stede. Mining Italian short argumentative texts. In Proc. of the Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2019). 2019. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Philipp Sadler, Tatjana Scheffler, and David Schlangen. Can Neural Image Captioning be Controlled via Forced Attention?. In Proceedings of INLG. Tokyo, Japan, 2019. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Robin Schäfer and Manfred Stede. Improving implicit stance classification in tweets using word and sentence embeddings. In Christoph Benzm\"ullerand Heiner Stuckenschmidt, editor, KI 2019: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 299–307. Cham, 2019. Springer International Publishing. URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-30179-8_26. [Bibtex]
Tatjana Scheffler, Berfin Aktaş, Debopam Das, and Manfred Stede. Annotating Shallow Discourse Relations in Twitter Conversations. In Proc. of the Workshop on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking at NAACL. Minneapolis, MN, 2019. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Luise Schricker, Manfred Stede, and Peer Trilcke. Extraction and Classification of Speech, Thought, and Writing in German Narrative Texts. In Proc. of the German Conference on Computational Linguistics (KONVENS 2019). Erlangen, 2019. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Maria Skeppstedt, Andreas Kerren, and Manfred Stede. Finding Reasons for Vaccination Hesitancy: Evaluating Semi-Automatic Coding of Internet Discussion Forums. In Proc. of MEDINFO. Lyon, 2019. URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31437943. [Bibtex]
Manfred Stede, Tatjana Scheffler, and Amália Mendes. Connective-lex: A web-based multilingual lexical resource for connectives. Discours. Revue de linguistique, psycholinguistique et informatique, 2019. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Edit Szügyi, Sören Etler, Andrew Beaton, and Manfred Stede. Automated Assessment of Language Proficiency on German Data. In Proc. of the German Conference on Computational Linguistics (KONVENS 2019). Erlangen, 2019. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Shujun Wan, Tino Kutschbach, Anke Lüdeling, and Manfred Stede. RST-Tace: A tool for automatic comparison and evaluation of RST trees. In Proc. of the Workshop on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking at NAACL. Minneapolis, MN, 2019. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Yulia Clausen and Vivi Nastase. Metaphors in Text Simplification: To change or not to change, that is the question. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, 423–434. Florence, Italy, 2019. Association for Computational Linguistics. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Rebekah Cramerus and Tatjana Scheffler. Team Kit Kittredge at SemEval-2019 Task 4: LSTM Voting System. In Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 1021–1025. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 2019. Association for Computational Linguistics. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Roxanne El Baff, Henning Wachsmuth, Khalid Al-Khatib, Manfred Stede, and Benno Stein. Computational Argumentation Synthesis as a Language Modeling Task. In Proc. of the 12th Int'l Conference on Natural Language Generation. Tokyo, 2019. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Luise Schricker and Tatjana Scheffler. Ranking of Potential Questions. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop, 143–148. Florence, Italy, 2019. Association for Computational Linguistics. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Manfred Stede. Noch kindlich oder schon jugendlich? Oder gar erwachsen? Betrachtung von Komplexitätsmerkmalen altersspezifischer Texte. In J.M.M. Brown, A. Schmidt, and M. Wierzba, editors, Of Trees and Birds: A Festschrift for Gisbert Fanselow, pages 323–334. 2019. [Bibtex] [PDF]

2018

Stergos Afantenos, Andreas Peldszus, and Manfred Stede. Comparing decoding mechanisms for parsing argumentative structures. Argument and Computation, 9(3):177–192, 2018. [Bibtex] [DOI] [PDF]
M. Stede and D. Das. Bangla RST Discourse Treebank: Annotation Guidelines. Unpublished manuscript, 2018. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Peter Bourgonje, Jet Hoek, Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul, Gisela Redeker, Ted Sanders, and Manfred Stede. Constructing a lexicon of dutch discourse connectives. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Journal, 8:163–175, 12/2018 2018. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Peter Bourgonje and Manfred Stede. The Potsdam Commentary Corpus 2.1 in ANNIS3. In Proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theory. Oslo, Norway, 2018. [Bibtex]
Peter Bourgonje and Manfred Stede. Identifying explicit discourse connectives in German. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, 327–331. Melbourne, Australia, 2018. Association for Computational Linguistics. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Debopam Das. Discourse segmentation in bangla. In Girish Nath Jha, Kalika Bali, Sobha L, and Atul Kr. Ojha, editors, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018). Paris, France, May 2018. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [Bibtex] [PDF]
Laurence Danlos, Katerina Rysova, Magdalena Rysova, and Manfred Stede. Primary and secondary discourse connectives: definitions and lexicons. Dialogue and Discourse, 9(1):50–78, 2018. URL: http://dad.uni-bielefeld.de/index.php/dad/article/view/3734. [Bibtex]
Das Debopam, Tatjana Scheffler, Peter Bourgonje, and Manfred Stede. Constructing a lexicon of english discourse connectives. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, 360–365. Melbourne, Australia, 2018. Association for Computational Linguistics. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Debopam Das and Manfred Stede. Developing the Bangla RST Discourse Treebank. In Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference chair), Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Koiti Hasida, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, and Takenobu Tokunaga, editors, Proceedings of the 11h International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'18). Miyazaki, Japan, 2018. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [Bibtex] [PDF]
Debopam Das and Maite Taboada. RST Signalling Corpus: a corpus of signals of coherence relations. Language Resources and Evaluation, 52(1):149–184, 2018. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Alexander Knoth, Manfred Stede, and Erik Hägert. Dokumentenarbeit mit hierarchisch strukturierten Texten: Eine historisch vergleichende Analyse von Verfassungen. In G. Vogeler, editor, Kritik der digitalen Vernunft - DHd 2018 Book of Abstracts. Köln, Germany, 2018. Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum. [Bibtex]
Amália Mendes, Iria del Rio, Manfred Stede, and Felix Dombek. A Lexicon of Discourse Markers for Portuguese – LDM-PTs. In N. Calzolari et al., editor, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'18). Miyazaki, Japan, 2018. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [Bibtex] [PDF]
Elena Musi, Mark Aakhus, Smaranda Muresan, Andrea Rocci, and Manfred Stede. From theory to practice: the annotation of argument schemes. In Argumentation and Inference - Proc. of the 2nd European Conference on Argumentation, Fribourg, 2017. College Publications, London, 2018. [Bibtex]
Elena Musi, Tariq Alhindi, Manfred Stede, Leonard Kriese, Smaranda Muresan, and Andrea Rocci. A multi-layer annotated corpus of argumentative text: from argument schemes to discourse relations. In N. Calzolari et al., editor, Proceedings of the 11h International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'18). Miyazaki, Japan, 2018. European Language Resources Association (ELRA). [Bibtex] [PDF]
Andreas Peldszus. Automatic recognition of argumentation structure in short monological texts PhD thesis, Universit\"at Potsdam, 2018. (submitted April 21, 2017; defended October 27, 2017). URL: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-421441. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Maria Skeppstedt, Andreas Peldszus, and Manfred Stede. More or less controlled elicitation of argumentative text: enlarging a microtext corpus via crowdsourcing. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Argumentation Mining (at EMNLP), 155–163. Brussels, 2018. Association for Computational Linguistics. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Maria Skeppstedt, Kostiantyn Kucher, Manfred Stede, and Andreas Kerren. Topics2Themes: Computer-Assisted Argument Extraction by Visual Analysis of Important Topics. In Proceedings of the LREC Workshop on Visualization as Added Value in the Development, Use and Evaluation of Language Resources, 9–16. 2018. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Maria Skeppstedt, Manfred Stede, and Andreas Kerren. Stance-taking in topics extracted from vaccine-related tweets and discussion forum posts. In Proceedings of the 2018 EMNLP Workshop SMM4H: The 3rd Social Media Mining for Health Applications Workshop and Shared Task, 5–8. Brussels, 2018. Association for Computational Linguistics. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Maria Skeppstedt, Andreas Kerren, and Manfred Stede. Vaccine hesitancy in discussion forums : computer-assisted argument mining with topic models. In Building Continents of Knowledge in Oceans of Data : The Future of Co-Created eHealth, number 247 in Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 366–370. IOS Press, 2018. URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29677984. [Bibtex]
Manfred Stede and Jodi Schneider. Argumentation Mining volume 40 of Synthesis Lectures in Human Language Technology. Morgan & Claypool, 2018. [Bibtex]
Henning Wachsmuth, Manfred Stede, Roxanne El Baff, Khalid Al Khatib, Maria Skeppstedt, and Benno Stein. Argumentation synthesis following rhetorical strategies. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 3753–3765. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, 2018. Association for Computational Linguistics. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Berfin Aktaş, Tatjana Scheffler, and Manfred Stede. Anaphora resolution for twitter conversations: an exploratory study. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora, and Coreference, CRAC@HLT-NAACL 2018, 1–10. New Orleans, Louisiana, June 2018. Association for Computational Linguistics. (Some numbers in Table 4 are corrected from the version published in the CRAC 2018 WS Proceedings). [Bibtex] [PDF]
Massimo Poesio, Yulia Grishina, Varada Kolhatkar, Nafise Moosavi, Ina Roesiger, Adam Roussel, Fabian Simonjetz, Alexandra Uma, Olga Uryupina, Juntao Yu, and Heike Zinsmeister. Anaphora resolution with the ARRAU corpus. In Proceedings of the First Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference. New Orleans, USA, June 2018. [Bibtex] [PDF]
Tatjana Scheffler, Manfred Stede, Peter Bourgonje, and Felix Dombek. A multilingual database of connectives: connective-lex.info. In Ho-Dac and Muller, editors, Cross-Linguistic Discourse Annotation: applications and perspectives, pages 144–150. 2018. [Bibtex]
Pietro Totis and Manfred Stede. Classifying italian newspaper text: news or editorial? In Proceedings of the 5th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it). Torino, Italy, 2018. [Bibtex] [PDF]