New DFG projectFAME - A framework for argument mining and evaluation
1 September 2019, by Reinhard Zierke
Dr. Gregor Wiedemann from the Language Technology group of our department has successfully acquired a new DFG project. In the project "A Framework for Argument Mining and Evaluation (FAME)", he will investigate together with researchers from the computer science department at Leipzig University (Dr. Ringo Baumann and Prof. Gerhard Heyer) how argument mining in the area of natural language processing can be fruitfully integrated with argument evaluation in the area of formal logic. The major challenge is to bridge the gap between processing texts in empirical language data and evaluating arguments expressed in some formal language with a corresponding formal semantics. Controlled natural languages (CNL) will be used as an intermediate representation of argumentative texts to connect the two so far largely independent computer science research areas. The three-year project will begin in September this year at our department.