Overview of Touché 2024: argumentation systems

Decision-making and opinion-forming are everyday tasks that involve weighing pro and con arguments. The goal of Touché is to foster the development of support-technologies for decision-making and opinion-forming and to improve our understanding of these processes. This fifth edition of the lab features three shared tasks: (1) Human value detection (ValueEval), where participants detect (implicit) references to human values and their attainment in text; (2) Multilingual Ideology and Power Identification in Parliamentary Debates, where participants identify from a speech the political leaning of the speaker’s party and whether it was governing at the time of the speech (new task); and (3) Image retrieval or generation in order to convey the premise of an argument with visually. In this paper, we briefly describe the planned setup for the fifth lab edition at CLEF 2024 and summarize the results of the 2023 edition.