Despite (1) scientific texts being inherently argumentative (Gilbert, 1976), (2) the existence of theoretical argumentative frameworks (Toulmin, 2003;Kirschner et al., 2015), and (3) a wide range of argument extraction models in other domains (e.g., debates or essays, see Palau and Moens (2009); , inter alia), there is still very little work on automatic argumentation mining from scientific literature.
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