UCL Discovery
UCL home » Library Services » Electronic resources » UCL Discovery

Introduction to structured argumentation

Besnard, P; Garcia, A; Simari, G; Hunter, A; Modgil, S; Prakken, H; Toni, F; (2014) Introduction to structured argumentation. Argument and Computation , 5 (1) 1 - 4. 10.1080/19462166.2013.869764. Green open access

[thumbnail of special.pdf]
Preview
PDF
special.pdf
Available under License : See the attached licence file.

Download (158kB)

Abstract

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. © 2014 Taylor and Francis.

Type: Article
Title: Introduction to structured argumentation
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/19462166.2013.869764
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19462166.2013.869764
Language: English
Additional information: This is the authors' accepted version of this published article.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
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
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1427926
Downloads since deposit
215Downloads
Download activity - last month
Download activity - last 12 months
Downloads by country - last 12 months

Archive Staff Only

View Item View Item