We read with interest the Point and Counterpoint editorials in CHEST (May 2014) by Suissa and Rabe 1 and Rho et al 2 about the appropriateness of industry-sponsored rofl umilast trials. In the editorials, reference was made to the level of patient withdrawal as well as to the level of side eff ects experienced by patients receiving this drug during clinical trials. 2 In our real-world clinical ...

This paper proposes a shared task for the identification of the argumentative structure in newspaper editorials. By the term “argumentative structure” we refer to the sequence of argumentative units in the text along with the relations between them. The main contribution is a large-scale dataset with more than 200 annotated editorials, which shall help argumentation mining researchers to evalua...