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Towards an Argument Interchange Format
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Citation: Carlos Chesñevar, Jarred McGinnis, Sanjay Modgil, Iyad Rahwan, Chris Reed, Guillermo Simari, Matthew South, Gerard Vreeswijk, Steven Willmott (2006) Towards an Argument Interchange Format. The Knowledge Engineering Review (RSS)
doi: 10.1017/S0269888906001044
Tagged: Computer Science (RSS) argumentation (RSS), AIF (RSS)
Summary:
Argumention is a multidisciplinary field with lots of recent work and several markup languages; this paper advances interoperability between argumentation tools by providing an Argument Interchange Format (AIF). It also presents reifications for 3 systems: Argumentation Service Platform with Integrated Components (ASPIC), Araucaria, and RDF Schema/RDF.
"AIF as it stands represents a consensus ‘abstract model’ established by researchers across fields of argumentation, artificial intelligence and multi-agent systems." (ed: AIF is under active development as of 2010, when AIF2.0 is being developed).
Principles
- Machine readable syntax
- Goal: Machine processable semantics - towards this, the semantics are at least explicit
- Abstract model with concrete syntaxes (described as reifications)
- Core concepts with multiple extensions
Core Ontology/Abstact Model
There are three main types of concepts
- Arguments and argument networks
- Communication - the Interchange of arguments (locutions, protocols, etc)
- Context - participants (e.g. agents), theories, etc.
These are each discussed in detail.
Theoretical and practical relevance:
Partly addresses these problems:
- tight coupling between semantics of arguments and the tool used
- limitations on automatic processing due to the lack of semantic models
