Hunter, Anthony;
(2022)
Understanding Enthymemes in Deductive Argumentation using Semantic Distance Measures.
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Proceedings of the 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2022.
AAAI Press: Virtual conference.
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Abstract
An argument can be regarded as some premises and a claim following from those premises. Normally, arguments exchanged by human agents are enthymemes, which generally means that some premises are implicit. So when an enthymeme is presented, the presenter expects that the recipient can identify the missing premises. An important kind of implicitness arises when a presenter assumes that two symbols denote the same, or nearly the same, concept (e.g. dad and father), and uses the symbols interchangeably. To model this process, we propose the use of semantic distance measures (e.g. based on a vector representation of word embeddings or a semantic network representation of words) to determine whether one symbol can be substituted by another. We present a theoretical framework for using substitutions, together with abduction of default knowledge, for understanding enthymemes based on deductive argumentation, and investigate how this could be used in practice.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Understanding Enthymemes in Deductive Argumentation using Semantic Distance Measures |
| Event: | The 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2022 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.aaai.org/AAAI22Papers/AAAI-1152.Hunter... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10145002 |
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