Expressing argumentative discussions in social media sites

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Citation: Christoph Lange, Uldis Boj ̀„ars, Tudor Groza, John G. Breslin, Siegfried Handschuh Expressing argumentative discussions in social media sites.


Download: http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-405/paper4.pdf

Tagged: Computer Science (RSS) semantic web (RSS), online argumentation (RSS), social media websites (RSS), SIOC (RSS), decision making (RSS), IBIS (RSS)

Summary:

Motivation

Online discussions contain hidden semantic which machines can't easily parse.

Ontologies like SIOC (Semantically Interlinked Online Communities) can help indicate the flow of participants.

Forums and blog discussions, wiki discussions and bug tracking are presented as places argumentative discussions happen; these use cases motivate the need for an argumentation model for SIOC. In Wikis, structured argumentation already happens using the DILIGENT ontology, on http://wiki.openmath.org/

Model

An IBIS-based argumentation model for SIOC is presented, however using it presents several issues: "Once the software supports the SIOC argumentation in principle, the next challenge is acquiring information about argumentative structures in discussions. This could be done automatically, or by letting the users annotate their posts manually."

See also

This paper is updated by An Abstract Framework for Modeling Argumentation in Virtual Communities, which presents a related argumentation model, while addressing the granularity concerns raised in this article.

Theoretical and practical relevance:

Users will be able to get machines to do some for the work for them!



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