Overview of AI-Debater 2023: The Challenges of Argument Generation Tasks

Argument and debate are fundamental capabilities of human intelligence, essential for a wide range of human activities, and common to all human societies. Argumentation [1, 2, 3] takes the human logical argumentation process as the research object, and is a research field involving logic, philosophy, language, rhetoric, computer science and education. Striving to enable models to automatically understand and generate argument texts, computational argumentation, a newly emerging research field, is obtaining increasing attention from the research community [4]. Depending on the task objectives, computational argumentation tasks can be divided into two aspects, argument mining and argument generation. With the rapid development of modern technology, online forums like ChangeMyView allow people to freely exchange opinions on specific topics, making them suitable data sources for argument generation tasks, especially for designing artificial debaters, as online forums closely resemble real-world debates. Initial research in this field has focused on analyzing ChangeMyView data [5, 6] to summarize the key factors of persuasive arguments.