Program

Touché program is part of the CLEF 2020 conference program.

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September, 23 (all times are CEST)
	Touché: Argument Retrieval Workshop will be held online
15:00-15:10	Touché 2020 Welcome [slides] Organizer
15:10-16:30	Session 1: Conversational Argument Retrieval
15:10-15:40	Keynote: Argument Retrieval in Project Debater [slides] Yufang Hou (IBM Research Europe, Dublin)
15:40-15:50	Overview of Task 1 on Conversational Argument Retrieval [slides] Organizer
15:50-16:00	Exploring Argument Retrieval with Transformers (paper presentation) [slides] Christopher Akiki
16:00-16:10	Ranking Arguments by Combining Claim Similarity and Argument Quality Dimensions (paper presentation) [slides] Lorik Dumani and Ralf Schenkel
16:10-16:30	Lightning talks [slides] Touché Task 1 participants
16:30-17:00	Break
17:00-18:30	Session 2: Comparative Argument Retrieval
17:00-17:25	Keynote: Debate Technology for Empowering the Public: Insights and Avenues [slides] Annette Hautli-Janisz (University of Konstanz)
17:25-17:35	Overview of Task 2 on Comparative Argument Retrieval [slides] Organizer
17:35-17:45	Retrieving Comparative Arguments using Deep Pre-trained Language Models and NLU (paper presentation) [slides] Viktoriia Chekalina and Alexander Panchenko
17:45-17:55	University of Amsterdam at CLEF 2020 (paper presentation) Mahsa S. Shahshahani and Jaap Kamps
17:55-18:05	Lightning talks [slides] Touché Task 2 participants
18:05-18:30	Panel discussion and closing remarks [slides]