Overview of Touché 2024: Argumentation Systems

Johannes Kiesel, Çağrı Çöltekin, Maximilian Heinrich, Maik Fröbe, Milad Alshomary, Bertrand De Longueville, Tomaž Erjavec, Nicolas Handke, Matyáš Kopp, Nikola Ljubešić, Katja Meden, Nailia Mirzhakhmedova, Vaidas Morkevičius, Theresa Reitis-Münstermann, Mario Scharfbillig, Nicolas Stefanovitch, Henning Wachsmuth, Martin Potthast, Benno Stein

Abstract: This paper is a condensed overview of Touché: the fifth edition of the lab on argumentation systems that was held at CLEF 2024. With the goal to foster the development of support-technologies for decision-making and opinion-forming, we organized three shared tasks: (1) Human value detection (ValueEval), where participants detect (implicit) references to human values and their attainment in text; (2) Multilingual Ideology and Power Identification in Parliamentary Debates, where participants identify from a speech the political leaning of the speaker’s party and whether it was governing at the time of the speech (new task); and (3) Image retrieval or generation in order to convey the premise of an argument with visually. In this paper, we describe these tasks, their setup, and participating approaches in detail.

External IDs:doi:10.1007/978-3-031-71908-0_14