http://www.arg.dundee.ac.uk Argumentation Research Group Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:57:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The group has been working on some tools that help with the analysis of argument, but that have a very low barrier to use. The first result is OVA (Online Visualisation of Argument) which is an online Flash tool for analysing arguments in web pages. In some ways it is ... http://www.arg.dundee.ac.uk/?p=294 Simon gave a presentation on the Argument Blogging project to CMNA 9 held at IJCAI in Pasadena recently. As described in a previous post argument blogging is the process of harvesting textual resources from the WWW and structuring them in terms of argumentative dialogues. The aim is to support distributed ... http://www.arg.dundee.ac.uk/?p=243 Our SICSA Distinguished Visitor, Henry Prakken, is delivering a masterclass today aimed at PhD students on the topic of Logics for Argumentation. We will be meeting from 1pm to 4pm in the seminar room in the School of Computing. In recent years, argumentation has become an increasingly popular topic in the symbolic ... http://www.arg.dundee.ac.uk/?p=241 Our SICSA visitor, Prof. Henry Prakken, is delivery a seminar today entitled, "Sense-making software for fact finding in law". We will be in Wolfson at noon as usual. Henry will also be leading our weekly reading group session this afternoon. http://www.arg.dundee.ac.uk/?p=235 Adam Wyner, from London, who is working with folks at UCL and Liverpool, amongst others, and who has PhDs both in linguistics from Cornell and also in computer science from Kings, is visiting us today. He will be speaking on "From Arguments in Natural Language to Argumentation Frameworks" at 1200 ... http://www.arg.dundee.ac.uk/?p=233 The group's new, EPSRC-funded Dialectical Argumentation Machines project is recruiting its research assistants. The advertisements for the first and second posts are now available. http://www.arg.dundee.ac.uk/?p=237 Prof. Henry Prakken from the Universities of Utrecht and Groningen in the Netherlands will be a SICSA Distinguished Visitor with ARG:dundee for the month of July 2009. Over that period, we will be exploring models that combine different theories of argumentation. He will also be delivering talks at ... http://www.arg.dundee.ac.uk/?p=222 This is Mark Snaith presenting his senior honours project entitled "Online Visualisation of Argument" at the annual School of Computing degree show at the University of Dundee [ Download: xvid avi format (47.6 MB) ]. The main aim of this project was to provide a simple way to visualise ... http://www.arg.dundee.ac.uk/?p=218 Here is a short film [ Download: xvid avi format (26.2MB) ] of Colin Gourlay talking about his honours project at the School of Computing 09 degree show. Colin has been working in the ARG group on the argument blogging project which captures argumentative dialogues that occur online and records ... http://www.arg.dundee.ac.uk/?p=210 Prof. Guillermo Simari from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the Universidad Nacional del Sur in Bahia Blanca, Argentina is visiting us today. He will be delivering a seminar entitled Modeling the Accrual of Arguments in Defeasible Logic Programming at noon in Wolfson. All are welcome. http://www.arg.dundee.ac.uk/?p=192