Special issue: Foundations of the languageof argumentation
Résumé
Argumentation mining, the automatic search for arguments in texts (in favour or against a particular standpoint) has become increasingly popular during the last few years. One reason is that interesting applications, including some of commercial relevance, are waiting to be explored here. For instance, there is an obvious connection to sentiment analysis or opinion mining: While this discipline seeks to find out how people feel about certain products or events or people, argumentation mining aims at discovering what people call for, why they do that, and how they support their claims.