Introduction to structured argumentation

In abstract argumentation, each argument is regarded as atomic. There is no internal structure to an argument. Also, there is no specification of what is an argument or an attack. They are assumed to be given. This abstract perspective provides many advantages for studying the nature of argumentatio...

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Autores: Besnard, Philippe, García, Alejandro Javier, Hunter, Anthony, Modgil, Sanjay, Prakken, Henry, Simari, Guillermo Ricardo, Toni, Francesca
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/21714
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/21714
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Argument in Logic Programming
Formal Models of Argumentation
Logic
Automated Argumentation Reasoning Systems
Argument And Automated Reasoning
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.2
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
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Sumario:In abstract argumentation, each argument is regarded as atomic. There is no internal structure to an argument. Also, there is no specification of what is an argument or an attack. They are assumed to be given. This abstract perspective provides many advantages for studying the nature of argumentation, but it does not cover all our needs for understanding argumentation or for building tools for supporting or undertaking argumentation. If we want a more detailed formalisation of arguments than is available with abstract argumentation, we can turn to structured argumentation, which is the topic of this special issue of Argument and Computation. In structured argumentation, we assume a formal language for representing knowledge, and specifying how arguments and counterarguments can be constructed from that knowledge. An argument is then said to be structured in the sense that normally the premises and claim of the argument are made explicit, and the relationship between the premises and claim is formally defined (for instance using logical entailment).In this introduction, we provide a brief overview of the approaches covered in this special issue on structured argumentation.