Argumentation Schemes Book
A new monograph on Argumentation Schemes co-authored by Doug Walton (Windsor), Fabrizio Macagno (Milan) and Chris Reed, and published by CUP is now out and available.
Continue Reading Add comment November 26th, 2008
Bart Verheij visiting
Bart Verheij, from the AI department at the University of Groningen is visiting us for a couple of days. He is delivering a seminar on Waking Up from the Logical Dream, Or: Argumentation as a Content-Driven Activity at 12 noon in Wolfson.
Continue Reading Add comment November 19th, 2008
Andrew Ravenscroft visiting
Prof. Andrew Ravenscroft from the Learning Technology Research Institute at London Metropolitan University is visiting the group today. He will be delivering a seminar entitled, The thinking web? Designing tools and mashups for cyber-argumentation today at 12 noon in Wolfson.
Continue Reading Add comment October 1st, 2008
Argument and Evidence
There is a small meeting tomorrow at the Computer Science Department at the University of Liverpool on Argument and Evidence, organised by Floris Bex. It forms a part of Henry Prakken, Gerard Vreeswijk and Bart Verheij’s Making Sense of Evidence project, on which Chris is a consultant. Chris has been invited to give a talk there on “Argument schemes in monologue and dialogue”. The monologic/dialogic link is one which the ARG group at Dundee is particularly focused on right now, building on a paper by Chris and Doug Walton from OSSA 2007, and the more recent AIF+ paper presented at COMMA. Tomorrow will be an opportunity to explore these ideas in an evidential context.
Continue Reading Add comment June 16th, 2008
ARG at COMMA
COMMA, next week in Toulouse, is the largest gathering of computational folks interested in argumentation. The ARG Dundee group have two papers there, both involving the emerging Argument Interchange Format. The first deals with the link between AIF and argument visualisation, and the second with how dialogue can be richly represented with only very minor extensions to the initial AIF specification. We will also be showing an early alpha of Araucaria 4.0 which uses the AIF. It will be available for download after the conference.
Continue Reading Add comment May 21st, 2008
Paweł Łoziński visiting
Paweł Łoziński, a PhD student at the Warsaw University of Technology, is visiting us this week to learn about our research. He is spending time looking at a number of our research projects to get a better understanding of how argumentation theory is impacting AI, and the ways in which models of argumentative dialogue, in particular, are characterised. He is hoping to use his time here to help develop his own PhD work in computational dialogue games.
If you are a scholar working on AI and argumentation, and you are interested in visiting our group, please email Chris.
Continue Reading Add comment April 7th, 2008
Rafael Bordini visiting
Today, Rafael Bordini is visiting the group and will be giving a seminar on, A Verifiable Approach to Programming Multi-Agent Systems. He will be talking at 12.30 in Wolfson.
Continue Reading Add comment February 27th, 2008
Argumentation and Symbolic AI
The Dundee Contemporary Arts centre has a series of “dialogues” - public lectures on various topics, usually presented in dialogic form. Chris is giving a lecture with Jesse Hoey this evening (at 7pm in the DCA meeting room) entitled How to Build a Mind. The lecture hopes to explore the debate about symbol grounding and embodiment through some general introduction to AI systems and specific exploration of Jesse’s research and the work in ARG:dundee. The lecture is open to all and free.
Continue Reading Add comment February 20th, 2008
Eight Years of CMNA
The International Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA) has been running for eight years, and there is now a website that for the first time draws together all the CMNA workshops and (almost) all of the papers that have been presented at them. CMNA has a tradition of attracting a broad interdisciplinary audience with perhaps an increasing emphasis on natural, i.e. real, arguments and the computational systems that model, engage with, generate, analyse, aggregate, transform and mediate such arguments. ARG:dundee has a long association with the series - Chris has co-organised them with Floriana Grasso and other colleagues since the start in 2001, and various members of the team have had papers in very nearly every event.
CMNA is unusual because it doesn’t publish proceedings (though there was a special issue of IJIS publishing revised versions of the best papers from 2001-3, and another special issue is due). Instead, it is designed to foster creative discussion. If you’re interested, the next installment will be hosted by ECAI’2008.
Continue Reading Add comment February 13th, 2008
Arguing Agents in Dubai
This week sees the first residential graduate school on multi-agent system technology to be hosted in the Middle East: the IFAAMAS-sponsored Dubai Agents and Multi Agent Systems School (DAMAS). Iyad Rahwan, who runs the agents research group there, invited Chris to deliver a part of the course on argumentation in multi-agent systems. He’ll be giving a historical summary combined with introductions to both formal and informal approaches to argumentation, and then a detailed exploration of argumentation games in agent settings, all liberally sprinkled with practical exercises. The aim is to rapidly bring students up to speed with the key features of ArgMAS research from the last decade.
Continue Reading Add comment January 27th, 2008