Argumentation: Content, Structure, and Relationship with Essay Quality

Beata Beigman Klebanov, Christian Stab, Jill Burstein, Yi Song, Binod Gyawali, Iryna Gurevych

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the relationship between argumentation structures and (a) argument content, and (b) the holistic quality of an argumentative essay. Our results suggest that structure-based approaches hold promise for automated evaluation of argumentative writing.