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Argumentation is an important sub-field of Artificial Intelligence, which involves computational methods for reasoning and decision making based on argumentative structures. This paper contributes to case-based reasoning with argument graphs in the standardized Argument Interchange Format by improving the similarity-based retrieval phase. We explore a large range of novel approaches for semantic textual similarity measures (both supervised and unsupervised) and use them in the context of a graph-based similarity measure for argument graphs. In addition, the use of an ontology-based semantic similarity measure for argumentation schemes is investigated. With a range of experiments we demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of the various methods and show that our methods can improve over our previous work. Our code is publicly available on GitHub.
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Lenz, M., Ollinger, S., Sahitaj, P., Bergmann, R. (2019). Semantic Textual Similarity Measures for Case-Based Retrieval of Argument Graphs. In: Bach, K., Marling, C. (eds) Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development. ICCBR 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11680. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29249-2_15
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