Recent Publications
2025
- Mohammad Yeghaneh Abkenar, Weixing Wang, Hendrik Graupner, and Manfred Stede.
Assessing Open-Weight Large Language Models on Argumentation Mining Subtasks.
In Proceedings of the Swiss Text Analytics Conference. Zurich, 2025.
(to appear).
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- Valerio Basile, Cristina Bosco, Francesca Grasso, Muhammad Okky Ibrahim, Maria Skeppsted, and Manfred Stede, editors.
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Ecology, Environment, and Natural Language Processing (NLP4Ecology)
University of Tartu, Tallinn, 2025.
URL: https://hdl.handle.net/10062/107174.
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- Steffen Frenzel and Manfred Stede.
Sentence-Alignment in Semi-parallel Datasets.
In Proceedings of the 9th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL). Albuquerque/NM, 2025.
(to appear).
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- Francesca Grasso, Stefano Locci, and Manfred Stede.
Applying the Character-Role Narrative Framework with LLMs to Investigate Environmental Narratives in Scientific Editorials and Tweets.
In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop of Natural Language Processing meets Climate Change (ClimateNLP) at ACL. Vienna, 2025.
(to appear).
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- Freya Hewett and Manfred Stede.
Disagreements in analyses of rhetorical text structure: A new dataset and first analyses.
In Proceedings of the 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW) at ACL. Vienna, 2025.
(to appear).
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- Maria Poiaganova and Manfred Stede.
From Debates to Diplomacy: Argument Mining Across Political Registers.
In Proceedings of the 12th Argument Mining Workshop at ACL. Vienna, 2025.
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- Robin Schaefer.
On Integrating LLMs Into an Argument Annotation Workflow.
In Proceedings of the 12th Argument Mining Workshop at ACL. Vienna, 2025.
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- Manfred Stede and Ronja Memminger.
AAfD-CCC: Analyzing the Climate Change Discourse of a German Right-wing Political Party.
In Proceedings of the 4th NLP for Positive Impact Workshop (NLP4PI) at ACL. Vienna, 2025.
(to appear).
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- Karolina Zaczynska.
Expanding the UNSC Conflicts Corpus by Incorporating Domain Expert Annotations and LLM Experiments.
In Proceedings of the 19th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW) at ACL. Vienna, 2025.
(to appear).
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- Robin Schaefer, Sophia Rauh, and Manfred Stede.
On Complex Argumentation Structure in Tweets.
Argumentation et Analyse du Discours, 2025.
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2024
- Francesca Grasso, Ronny Patz, and Manfred Stede.
NYTAC-CC: A Climate Change Subcorpus based on New York Times Articles.
In Proceedings of CLiC-it - 10th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics. Pisa, Italy, 2024.
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- Freya Hewett, Hadi Asghari, and Manfred Stede.
Elaborative Simplification for German-Language Texts.
In Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2024 conference. Kyoto, 2024.
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- Hannah J. Seemann, Sara Shahmohammadi, Manfred Stede, and Tatjana Scheffler.
Spoken vs. Written Computer-Mediated Communication.
In Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Social Media Corpora. Nice, France, 2024.
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- Hannah J. Seemann, Sara Shahmohammadi, Manfred Stede, and Tatjana Scheffler.
Discourse-Level Features in Spoken and Written Communication.
In Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2024). Vienna, 2024.
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- Sara Shahmohammadi and Manfred Stede.
Discourse Parsing for German Texts with new RST Corpora.
In Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2024). Vienna, 2024.
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- Karolina Zaczynska and Manfred Stede.
Rhetorical Strategies in the UN Security Council: Rhetorical Structure Theory and Conflicts.
In Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2024 conference. Kyoto, 2024.
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- Mohammad Yeghaneh Abkenar and Manfred Stede.
Neural mining of persian short argumentative texts.
In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia (LREC - EURALI). Turin, Italy, May 2024.
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- Berfin Aktaş and Burak Özmen.
Shallow Discourse Parsing on Twitter Conversations.
In Proceedings of the 20th Joint ACL- ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation (LREC - ISA-20). Turin, Italy, May 2024.
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- Fabian Kieser, Paul Tschisgale, Sophia Rauh, Xiaoyu Bai, Holger Maus, Stefan Petersen, Manfred Stede, Knut Neumann, and Peter Wulff.
David vs. Goliath: Comparing conventional machine learning and a large language model for assessing studenty' concept use in a physics problem.
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2024.
URL: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/artificial-intelligence/articles/10.3389/frai.2024.1408817.
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- René Knaebel, Robin Schaefer, and Manfred Stede.
The Impact of Argument Arrangement on Essay Scoring.
In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Advances in Robust Argumentation Machines (RATIO-24). Bielefeld, 2024.
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- Karolina Zaczynska, Peter Bourgonje, and Manfred Stede.
How Diplomats Dispute: The UN Security Council Conflict Corpus.
In Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024). Turin, Italy, 2024.
URL: https://github.com/linatal/UNSCon.
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2023
- Hadi Asghari, Freya Hewett, and Theresa Züger.
On the Prevalence of Leichte Sprache on the German Web.
In Proceedings of the 15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023, WebSci '23, 147–152. New York, NY, USA, 2023. Association for Computing Machinery.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/3578503.3583599.
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- Stian Rødven-Eide, Karolina Zaczynska, Antonio Pires, Ronny Patz, and Manfred Stede.
The UNSC-Graph: An Extensible Knowledge Graph for the UNSC Corpus.
In Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Political Text Analysis (CPSS-2023). Ingolstadt, 2023.
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- Juliane Hanel.
Transformer-Based Analysis of Climate Discourse and Green Party Evolution in German Party Manifestos.
Unpublished M.Sc. Thesis, 2023.
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- Freya Hewett.
APA-RST: A Text Simplification Corpus with RST Annotations.
In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse. Toronto, Canada and Online, July 2023. ACL.
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- René Knaebel.
A weakly-supervised learning approach to the identification of “alternative lexicalizations” in shallow discourse parsing.
In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI 2023), 61–69. Toronto, Canada, July 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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- Rene Knaebel and Manfred Stede.
Discourse sense flows: Modelling the rhetorical style of documents across various domains.
In Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, and Kalika Bali, editors, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 14462–14482. Singapore, December 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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- Sophia Rauh, Karolina Zaczynska, and Peter Bourgonje.
Toward a Multilingual Connective Database: Aligning German/French Concessive Connectives.
In Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2023), 77–84. Ingolstadt, Germany, 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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- Robin Schaefer, René Knaebel, and Manfred Stede.
Towards Fine-Grained Argumentation Strategy Analysis in Persuasive Essays.
In Milad Alshomary, Chung-Chi Chen, Smaranda Muresan, Joonsuk Park, and Julia Romberg, editors, Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Argument Mining, 76–88. Singapore, December 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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- Robin Schaefer, Christoph M. Abels, Stephan Lewandowsky, and Manfred Stede.
Communicating Climate Change: A Comparison Between Tweets and Speeches by German Members of Parliament.
In Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis. Toronto, Canada and Online, July 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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- Sara Shahmohammadi, Hannah Seemann, Manfred Stede, and Tatjana Scheffler.
Encoding discourse structure: comparison of RST and QUD.
In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI 2023), 89–98. Toronto, Canada, July 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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- Manfred Stede, Yannic Bracke, Luka Borec, Neele Charlotte Kinkel, and Maria Skeppstedt.
Framing Climate Change in Nature and Science Editorials: Applications of Supervised and Unsupervised Text Categorization.
Computational Social Science, 2023.
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- M. Stede, A. Goecke, N. Simmel, and B. Schneider.
Der reine Klimawahnsinn! Zur Konzeption eines Diskursglossars von Klimakomposita.
In M. Beißwenger, E. Gredel, L. Lemnitzer, and R. Schneider, editors, Korpusgestütze Sprachanalyse - Grundlagen, Anwendungen und Analysen.
Narr, Tübingen, 2023.
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2022
- Berfin Aktaş and Manfred Stede.
Anaphoric distance in oral and written language: Experimental evidence.
Discours, 2022.
URL: https://journals.openedition.org/discours/12383.
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- Hadi Asghari and Freya Hewett.
HIIG at GermEval 2022: best of both worlds ensemble for automatic text complexity assessment.
In Proceedings of the GermEval 2022 Workshop on Text Complexity Assessment of German Text, 15–20. Potsdam, Germany, 2022. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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- Xiaoyu Bai and Manfred Stede.
A survey of current machine learning approaches to student free-text evaluation for intelligent tutoring.
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, pages 1–39, 2022.
URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40593-022-00323-0.
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- Xiaoyu Bai and Manfred Stede.
Argument Similarity Assessment in German for Intelligent Tutoring: Crowdsourced Dataset and First Experiments.
In Proceedings of the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), 2177–2187. Marseille, France, 2022.
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- Katarzyna Budzynska, Chris Reed, Manfred Stede, Benno Stein, and Zhang He.
Framing in Communication: From Theories to Computation (Dagstuhl Seminar 22131).
Dagstuhl Reports, 12(3):117–140, 2022.
URL: https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2022/17271.
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- Yulia Clausen and Manfred Stede.
Discourse connectives and their arguments: An experiment on anaphoricity in German.
Linguistics Vanguard, 8(1):95–111, 2022.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2021-0102.
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- Luis Glaser, Ronny Patz, and Manfred Stede.
UNSC-NE: A Named Entity Extension to the UN Security Council Debates Corpus.
Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics, 35(2):51–67, 2022.
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- René Knaebel and Manfred Stede.
Towards Identifying Alternative-Lexicalization Signals of Discourse Relations.
In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 837–850. Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, 2022. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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- Robin Schaefer, René Knaebel, and Manfred Stede.
On Selecting Training Corpora for Cross-Domain Claim Detection.
In Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Argument Mining (COLING), 181–186. Online and in Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, 2022. International Conference on Computational Linguistics.
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- Robin Schaefer and Manfred Stede.
GerCCT: An Annotated Corpus for Mining Arguments in German Tweets on Climate Change.
In Proceedings of the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC). Marseille, France, 2022. European Language Resources Association.
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- Noël Simmel.
Klimaretter oder Klimaspinner? Entwicklung einer Web-App zum Klimawandeldiskurs.
Unpublished B.Sc. Thesis, 2022.
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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. CEUR-WS.org, 2021.
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- Anastasia Linnik, Roelien Bastiaanse, Manfred Stede, and Mariya Khudyakova.
Linguistic mechanisms of coherence in aphasic and non-aphasic discourse.
Aphasiology, 2021.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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. 2021.
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- Peter Bourgonje.
Shallow Discourse Parsing for German
doctoralthesis, Universität Potsdam, 2021.
(submitted July 22, 2020; defended April 16, 2021).
URL: https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-50663.
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- F. Hewett and M. Stede.
Automatically evaluating the conceptual complexity of German texts.
In Proc. of KONVENS 2021. Düsseldorf, 2021.
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- 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, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2021.
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- René Knaebel.
discopy: A Neural System for Shallow Discourse Parsing.
In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse, 128–133. Punta Cana, Dominican Republic and Online, November 2021. Association for Computational Linguistics.
URL: https://aclanthology.org/2021.codi-main.12.pdf.
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- 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.
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