- Register to attend for free on the day via Eventbrite.
- CMNA 21 will use Zoom for meeting participants. We’ll distribute links to registered delegates prior to the meeting.
- CMNA 2021 Proceedings are now available published through CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
- Note that all times are in British Summer Time (GMT +1). You can use this link to double check the time in your own timezone for the sessions.
- The closing seminar is part of the Ethics of Argumentation seminar series. We’ll post a link to join that event to the eventbrite registered participants information in due time.
Session #1 (Thursday September 2nd, 15:00-17:30 BST)
| Authors | Title | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Introductory Remarks | 15:00-15:15 | |
| Annalena Aicher, Wolfgang Minker and Stefan Ultes | Determination of Reflective User Engagement in Argumentative Dialogue Systems | 15:15-15:45 |
| Mark Snaith and Simon Wells | Towards a Declarative Approach to Constructing Dialogue Games | 15:45-16:15 |
| BREAK/COFFEE/CHAT | 16:15-16:30 | |
| Nancy Green | Some Argumentative Uses of the Rhetorical Figure of Antithesis in Environmental Science Policy Articles | 16:30-17:00 |
| CLOSING | 17:00-17:05 | |
| INFORMAL CHAT | 17:05-17:30 |
Session #2 (Friday September 3rd 15:00-17:30 BST)
| Authors | Title | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Introductory Remarks | 15:00-15:15 | |
| Elena Musi, Rudi Palmieri, Chiara Mercuri, Alessandro Giudici, Neil Maiden, Charlotte Hardman and Rita Borgo | What makes you fupy (‘food’ + ‘happy’)? Leveraging strategic maneuvering to build food coaching apps | 15:15-15:45 |
| Lars Malmqvist, Tommy Yuan and Peter Nightingale. | Improving Misinformation Detection in Tweets with Abstract Argumentation | 15:45-16:15 |
| BREAK/COFFEE/CHAT | 16:15-16:30 | |
| Jack Mumford, Katie Atkinson and Trevor Bench-Capon | Machine Learning and Legal Argument | 16:30-17:00 |
| Nancy Green and Joshua Crotts | A First Experiment Using ILP for Argument Mining | 17:00-17:30 |
| Closing Remarks | 17:30-17:35 | |
| INFORMAL CHAT | 17:35-18:00 |
Closing Seminar (18:00-19:00 BST)
This year we’ve coordinated with the interdisciplinary monthly online speaker series on the ethics of argumentation for the closing seminar. We’ll share the link to that seminar to all CMNA delegates and invite them to join that event immediately after the close of CMNA'21.
Title: Sources of Opinion: The Community of Knowledge and How to Take Advantage of Outsourcing
Speaker: Steven A. Sloman, Brown University
Abstract: People have some crazy opinions. Generally, these are the opinions that we disagree with. The standard view in both academia and the wider culture is that people have such opinions due to knowledge deficits; they are lacking information. On this view, providing information and critical reasoning skills is the best way to get opinions to converge, because they’ll converge to the truth. There is already strong reason to doubt this deficit model. I provide more in the form of evidence that knowledge is unrelated to attitudes about issues. In contrast, a person’s ideology influences both their attitudes and their sense of understanding. A competitor to the deficit model, the cultural cognition view, explains the effect of ideology on attitudes, but does not address the sense of understanding. I follow the cultural cognition view in proposing that people outsource much of their reasoning to their communities; I add that it is the resulting sense of understanding that mediates their attitudes. This community of knowledge suggests that people outsource most of their reasoning. I show how this fact can be deployed to bring evidence to bear on policy.