Translating Natural Language Arguments to Computational Arguments Using LLMs

Guilherme Trajano, Débora C. Engelmann, Rafael H. Bordini, Stefan Sarkadi, Jack Mumford, Alison R. Panisson

Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have become a significant milestone in the history of artificial intelligence, representing a powerful technology that drives advancements in natural language understanding and generation. In this paper, we propose an approach in which LLMs are utilized to support the task of translating natural language arguments into computational representations. Our approach is grounded in using argumentation schemes to classify arguments, providing context to LLMs for performing the proposed task. Our results demonstrate that LLMs, even with a short context, can handle simple argument structures. Moreover, our findings suggest that a larger context would likely enhance the performance, particularly when dealing with more complex argument structures.