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Ivan Habernal, Iryna Gurevych
The goal of argumentation mining, an evolving research field in computational linguistics, is to design methods capable of analyzing people's argumentation. In this article, we go beyond the state of the art in several ways. (i) We deal with actual Web data and take up the challenges given by the variety of registers…
Yvonne Berkle, Lukas Schmitt, Antonia Tolzin, Andreas Janson + 3 more
1## Introduction Argumentation is a fundamental aspect of human communication and thought (). Uses of argumentation include, among others, epistemic caution and the interindividual regulation of information through persuasive communication (). By presenting evidence and reasoning, people can make their ideas clear and…
Leon Assaad, Rafael Fuchs, Kirsty Phillips, Klee Schöppl + 1 more
'Ulrike Hahn'] Agent-based models (ABMs) are widely used to study the complex dynamics and emergent properties of systems with many interacting agents. This includes belief and opinion dynamics as are of relevance to understanding contexts as varied as online social media and the practice of science. This paper argues…
Paulo Pirozelli, Victor Hugo Nascimento Rocha, Fabio G. Cozman, Douglas Aldred
Arguments are a fundamental aspect of human reasoning, in which claims are supported, challenged, and weighed against one another. We present an end-to-end large language model (LLM)-based system for reconstructing arguments from natural language text into abstract argument graphs. The system follows a multi-stage…
Kees van Berkel, Jean H. M. Wagemans
This paper examines the conceptual and terminological overlap between theories and models of practical deliberation developed within the fields of Practical Reasoning (PR) and Practical Argumentation (PA). It carefully delineates the volitional, epistemic, normative, and social commitments invoked and explicates…
Emmanuelle-Anna Dietz Saldanha, Antonis Kakas
This paper addresses the challenge of modeling human reasoning, within a new framework called Cognitive Argumentation. This framework rests on the assumption that human logical reasoning is inherently a process of dialectic argumentation and aims to develop a cognitive model for human reasoning that is computational…
Marco Lillo-Unglaube, Andrés Canales-Johnson, Gorka Navarrete, Claudio Fuentes Bravo
'Claudio Fuentes Bravo'] Argumentation is a crucial component of our lives. Although in the absence of rational debate our legal, political, and scientific systems would not be possible, there is still no integrated area of research on the psychology of argumentation. Furthermore, classical theories of argumentation…
Vivien Heller
This study investigates moments in which one participant in an interaction embodies that he is “doing thinking,” a display that is commonly referred to as “thinking face. ” From an interactional perspective, it is assumed that embodied displays of “doing thinking” are a recurring social practice and serve interactive…
Thiemo Wambsganß, Christina Niklaus, Matthias Söllner, Siegfried Handschuh + 1 more
'Siegfried Handschuh' 'Jan Marco Leimeister'] In this paper, we present a novel annotation approach to capture claims and premises of arguments and their relations in student-written persuasive peer reviews on business models in German language. We propose an annotation scheme based on annotation guidelines that allows…
Moritz Plenz, Philipp Heinisch, Anette Frank, Philipp Cimiano
Deliberation Analysis (with Supplementary Materials) Authors: ['Moritz Plenz' 'Philipp Heinisch' 'Anette Frank' 'Philipp Cimiano'] Abstract. Deliberative processes play a vital role in shaping opinions, decisions and policies in our society. In contrast to persuasive debates, deliberation aims to foster understanding…
Catarina Dutilh Novaes
Since at least the 1980s, the role of adversariality in argumentation has been extensively discussed within different domains. Prima facie, there seem to be two extreme positions on this issue: argumentation should (ideally at least) never be adversarial, as we should always aim for cooperative argumentative…
Farjana Sultana Mim, Naoya Inoue, Shoichi Naito, Keshav Singh + 1 more
'Kentaro Inui'] In argumentative discourse, persuasion is often achieved by refuting or attacking others arguments. Attacking is not always straightforward and often comprise complex rhetorical moves such that arguers might agree with a logic of an argument while attacking another logic. Moreover, arguer might neither…
Benjamin Kinnear, Daniel J. Schumacher, Lara Varpio, Erik W. Driessen + 1 more
Introduction: Validity is frequently conceptualized in health professions education (HPE) assessment as an argument that supports the interpretation and uses of data. However, previous work has shown that many validity scholars believe argument and argumentation are relatively lacking in HPE. To better understand HPE’s…
Jialu Li, Esin Durmus, Claire Cardie
Online debate forums provide users a platform to express their opinions on controversial topics while being exposed to opinions from diverse set of viewpoints. Existing work in Natural Language Processing (NLP) has shown that linguistic features extracted from the debate text and features encoding the characteristics…
Yangwen Xu, Lorenzo Vignali, Olivier Collignon, Davide Crepaldi + 1 more
Our brain constructs reality through narrative and argumentative thought. Some hypotheses argue that these two modes of cognitive functioning are irreducible, reflecting distinct mental operations underlain by separate neural bases; Others ascribe both to a unitary neural system dedicated to long-timescale information.…
Maryam Ziaei, Mohammad Reza Bonyadi, David Reutens
Prior knowledge and beliefs influence our reasoning in daily life and may lead us to draw unwarranted conclusions with undesirable consequences. The underlying neural correlates of the interaction between belief and logic, prior to making logical decisions, are largely unknown. In this study, we aimed to identify brain…
Maryam Ziaei, Mohammad Reza Bonyadi, David C. Reutens
In logical reasoning, difficulties in inhibition of currently-held beliefs may lead to unwarranted conclusions, known as belief bias. Aging is associated with difficulties in inhibitory control, which may lead to deficits in inhibition of currently-held beliefs. No study to date, however, has investigated the…
Hope Kean, Alexander Fung, Paris Jaggers, Jason Chen + 6 more
Humans are endowed with a powerful capacity for both inductive and deductive logical thought: we easily form generalizations based on a few examples and draw conclusions from known premises. Humans also arguably have the most sophisticated communication system in the animal kingdom: natural language allows us to…
Hope Kean, Alexander Fung, Paris Jaggers, Jason Chen + 6 more
Humans are endowed with a powerful capacity for both inductive and deductive logical thought: we easily form generalizations based on a few examples and draw conclusions from known premises. Humans also arguably have the most sophisticated communication system in the animal kingdom: natural language allows us to…
Jérôme Emonet, Bruno Cessac
Using simulation and a simple mathematical argument we argue that the refresh rate of overhead projectors, used in experiments on the visual system, may impact the perception of fast moving objects at the retinal and cortical level (V1), and thereby at the level of psychophysics.