Towards an Argument Interchange Format

{{Summary
 * title=Towards an Argument Interchange Format
 * authors=Carlos Chesñevar, Jarred McGinnis, Sanjay Modgil, Iyad Rahwan, Chris Reed, Guillermo Simari, Matthew South, Gerard Vreeswijk, Steven Willmott
 * tags=argumentation, AIF
 * 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
 * 1) Arguments and argument networks
 * 2) Communication - the Interchange of arguments (locutions, protocols, etc)
 * 3) Context - participants (e.g. agents), theories, etc.

These are each discussed in detail. }}
 * relevance=Partly addresses these problems:
 * 1) tight coupling between semantics of arguments and the tool used
 * 2) limitations on automatic processing due to the lack of semantic models
 * journal=The Knowledge Engineering Review
 * pub_date=2006
 * doi=10.1017/S0269888906001044
 * subject=Computer Science
 * journal_vol=21
 * pub_open_access=