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This week we welcome Kamila Gorska & Alex Marcoci to ARG-tech. Kamila joins us to study for a PhD in automated argument processing and Alex joins as a postdoc working on Trajectories of Conflict in the context of debate at the UN Security Council.

We're excited to announce that video production company Pindex Pindex has a new video in which Sir Stephen Fry introduces why argument technology is a critical new force for good and how it's starting to tackle some deep societal challenges. youtu.be/7cN3rZ5h3LE

Chris and Kamila have spent the week at the University of Passau, working on a paper on the role of questions in topical debate with Annette Hautli-Janisz, Wassiliki Siskou and Zlata Kikteva.

Ella, Chris, Kamila Gorska and our colleagues at @CoRNLP_UPassau were at @LREC2022 this week. A poster on annotator disagreement at the #NLPerspectives Workshop and then a main conference paper accompanying the release of the 300,000-word #QT30 corpus corpora.aifdb.org/QT30

This week’s reading group was led by Kamila Gorska, with the paper “Forecasting Argumentation Frameworks” by Benjamin Irwin, Antonio Rago and Francesca Toni (@fra_toni) from Imperial College London arxiv.org/abs/2205.11590