Projects

• Araucaria - A software tool for analysing arguments.
• AraucariaDB - An online corpus of analysed argumentation.
• ArgDB - An online corpus of analysed argumentation, building on AraucariaDB but using the open AIF standard for argument representation.
• Argument Blogging - Capturing the arguments that happen online. Enabling distributed argumentative dialogues to be aggregated and reused.
• Our contributions to the Argument Interchange Format.
• The Architecture for Argumentation - A suite of software to support the exploitation and use of argumentative dialogue games.
• ArgDF - Semantic web based argumentation using RDF. The project is based at the British University in Dubai and runs jointly with the University of Edinburgh, Informatics Department, and the University of Dundee, School of Computing. The project hompage can be found at www.ArgDF.org.
• The Arguing Agents Competition (AAC) is an international collaboration trying to build an empirical test framework for multi-agent argumentation.
• The EPSRC-funded Dialectical Argumentation Machines (DAM) project is working to deploy argumentation technologies online.
• Dung-O-Matic - a tool for interpreting Dung Argumentation Frameworks.
• The Intelligent Media Monitoring - Press and Communication Technologies (IMM-PACT) project is joint funded between EPSRC and the TSB and focuses on argument and decision making.
• MAgtALO - A proof-of-concept software system for argumentation-based virtual round table discussion.
• OVA: Online Visualisation of Argument - A Flash widget that supports analysis of online textual arguments and produces AIF resources. The project also includes OVAview, which renders AIF argument resources diagrammatically and OVAgen for manipulating abstract frameworks.