Regular Topics

The CMNA workshop series focuses on the general issue of modelling “natural” argumentation.

Contributions are solicited addressing, but not limited to, the following areas of interest:

• The characteristics of “natural” arguments (e.g. ontological aspects, cognitive issues, legal aspects).
• The linguistic characteristics of natural argumentation, including discourse markers, sentence format, referring expressions, and style.
• The generation of natural argument.
• Corpus argumentation results and techniques.
• Argumentation mining.
• Models of natural legal argument.
• Rhetoric and affect: the role of emotions, personalities, etc. in argumentation.
• The roles of licentiousness and deceit and the ethical implications of implemented systems demonstrating such features.
• Natural argumentation in multi-agent systems.
• Methods to better convey the structure of complex argument, including representation and summarisation.
• Natural argumentation and media: visual arguments, multi-modal arguments, spoken arguments.
• Evaluative arguments and their application in AI systems (such as decision-support and advice-giving).
• Non-monotonic, defeasible and uncertain argumentation.
• The computational use of models from informal logic and argumentation theory.
• Computer supported collaborative argumentation, for pedagogy, e-democracy and public debate.
• Tools for interacting with structures of argument.
• Applications of argumentation based systems.