[4] Argument mining has been applied in many different genres including the qualitative assessment of social media content (e.g. Twitter, Facebook), where it provides a powerful tool for policy-makers and researchers in social and political sciences.
[6] Given the wide variety of text genres and the different research perspectives and approaches, it has been difficult to reach a common and objective evaluation scheme.
Annotating argumentative structures is a highly demanding task.
There have been successful attempts to delegate such annotation tasks to the crowd but the process still requires a lot of effort and carries significant cost.
Initial attempts to bypass this hurdle were made using the weak supervision approach.