Yamen Ajjour

Research Scientist

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Hannover, Niedersachsen 30171

Yamen Ajjour is interested in multimodality (particularly speech and text), ethical ai, and ai for science.

My PhD was on Addressing Controversial Topics in Search Engines where I worked on

  1. Identifying argumentative questions in web search
  2. Generalizability of argument mining methods across topic and genre
  3. Identifying and visualizing frames in argumentation

news

Apr 01, 2026 Our paper “ArgBench: Benchmarking LLMs on Computational Argumentation Tasks” has been accepted at ACL2026 (Findings).
Jun 22, 2025 Our Paper Exploring LLMs Priming Strategies for Few-shot Stance Classification has been accepted at ArgMining 2025, ACL in Vienna
Mar 12, 2025 Yamen has been invited to the Lorentz Center Workshop on Hybrid Argumentation and Responsible AI in Leiden, Netherlands
Mar 22, 2024 I will be co-organizing ArgMining 2024 at ACL in Bangkok, Thailand
Jan 12, 2024 I will be giving a talk at PyData Meetup in Berlin

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