MARIANNE

The MARIANNE project-team pursues high-impact research in Artificial Intelligence with a focus on data and models for computational argumentation in natural language. MARIANNE is an Inria joint project-team with the I3S (Computer Science) laboratory of Université Côte d’Azur and CNRS. The team is composed of computer scientists, but it holds a strong interdisciplinary connotation in particular with linguistics, philosophy, sociology and law. MARIANNE proposes innovative Natural Language Processing methods, addressing real-world problems, that are both theoretically sound and explainable. The team focuses on topics such as argument mining, argument and counter-argument generation, argument quality assessment, argument-based explainable AI, argument dynamics, argument-based neuro-symbolic models. The main application scenarios investigated in the team are political debates (propaganda), healthcare, law and online social media (hate speech and disinformation). The team also has a special concern about innovation and transfer. The research project of the team is aligned with the "Core elements of AI" part of the 3IA Côte d’Azur Cluster.