PPT-On the Semantics of Argumentation

1 Antonis Kakas Francesca Toni Paolo Mancarella Department of Computer Science Department of Computing University of Cyprus . These semantics wil l be treated both in their original extensionbased form as well as in the form o f argument labellings Our treatment includes a sketch of few algorithms for skepti cal as well as for the credulous approach to argumentation 1 Intr Katie Welch, PhD. LING3311-001. How do we know what words mean?. When we want to know what a word means, we often turn a familiar source—the dictionary. . Why is the dictionary not a sufficient method for determining meaning? . Middle & High . School Science. Victor . Sampson. Assistant . Professor of Science . Education . School of Teacher Education and FSU-Teach. Florida State University. Patrick . Enderle. Assistant in Research. The mechanics of taking a firm stand aiming to persuade an audience. Arguments are Everywhere. Making an argument = expressing a point of view on a subject and supporting it with evidence.. This is often the most important task of academic writing. Often, this is also an unstated expectation.. The “Argumentation . &. . Advocacy” Course in . GenEd. Carol Tutzauer. Center for Educational . Innovation. Frank . Tutzauer. Department of Communication. Universit. y. at Buffalo. The Standard . Text-to-Scene Generation. 1. Bob Coyne (. coyne@cs.columbia.edu. ). Owen . Rambow. (. rambow@ccls.columbia.edu. ). . Richard . Sproat. (. rws@xoba.com. ). Julia Hirschberg (. julia@columbia.edu. ). Social Context. Iyad Rahwan. Introduction. Argument takes place in a social context. Arguing with oneself vs. arguing with others. New challenges:. How does the audience evaluate arguments?. How do arguers strategize?. A branch of linguistics dealing with the study of meaning, including the ways meaning is structured in language and changes in meaning and form over time . (Random House Webster’s Dictionary). Semantics, roughly defined, is the study of meaning. Grigore Rosu. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Runtime Verification, Inc.. 1. 12 October 2017, LOPSTR’17. Ideal Language Framework Vision. Deductive program verifier. Parser. Interpreter. MAS.S60. Rob Speer. Catherine . Havasi. * Lots of slides borrowed for lots of sources! See end. . Are people doing logic?. Language Log: “Russia sentences”. *More people have been to Russia than I have.. Chapter 3 Topics. Introduction. The General Problem of Describing Syntax. Formal Methods of Describing Syntax. Attribute Grammars. Describing . the Meanings of Programs: Dynamic Semantics. 1-. 2. Introduction. Everyday Perspective. Interpersonal conflict=2 people engaged in verbal hostility. How do I win these arguments?. Debate=verbal competition. Collaboration=working out disagreements constructively. Cooperative knowledge seeking. to Argumentation Mining in Natural Language Text. Topic 2. 4/14/2014. Huy V. Nguyen. 1. Outline. Introduction to argumentation. Argumentation mining the problem. Argumentation v. discourse. Annotation and corpora. ARGUMENTATION METHODS OF ARGUMENT RECONSTRUCTION Douglas Walton CRRAR FMAR, Konstanz, Sept. 21, 2012 Argumentation Schemes The current problem with trying to evaluate plausible reasoning using systems of weights with numerical values is that there can be many ways of doing this.