Towards an Argument Interchange Format
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 (original publisher): 10.1017/S0269888906001044
Semantic Scholar (metadata): 10.1017/S0269888906001044
Sci-Hub (fulltext): 10.1017/S0269888906001044
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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
