Submission are solicited to the 18h Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument, to be held in conjunction with AISB 2018http://aisb2018.csc.liv.ac.uk/ at the University of Liverpool, UK, on April 4th-6th 2018.
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Paper submission will be handled by the Easychair conference system. Please submit your paper herehttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmna18.
KEY DATES
* Paper submission (all categories): 10 January 2018 Extended: 22 January 2018 * Notification to authors: 15 February 2018 * Final version of papers: 5 March 2018 * Early registration deadline: from the AISB 2018http://aisb2018.csc.liv.ac.uk/ website * CMNA 18: one day workshop during the AISB conference 4th - 6th April 2018 (exact date to be announced) *
CMNA18 proceedings will be published as http://www.aisb.org.uk/aisbpublications/convention-proceedings AISB Convention Proceedingshttp://www.aisb.org.uk/aisbpublications/convention-proceedings. http://ceur-ws.org/
TOPICS The workshop focuses on the issue of modelling "natural" argumentation. Contributions are solicited addressing, but not limited to, the following areas of interest:
* The characteristics of natural arguments: ontological aspects and cognitive issues. * Personalisation and tailoring of argument to a specific audience * Models of arguer and models of audience * The use of models from informal logic and argumentation theory, and in particular, approaches to specific schools of thought developed in informal logic and argumentation. * Rhetoric and affect: the role of emotions, personalities, etc. in models of argumentation. * The roles of manoeuvering and deceit and the ethical implications of implemented systems demonstrating such features. * The linguistic characteristics of natural argumentation, including discourse markers, sentence format, referring expressions, and style. Persuasive discourse processing (discourse goals and structure, speaker/hearer models, content selection, etc.). Language dependence and multilingual approaches. Empirical work based on corpora looking at these topics are especially welcomed. * Non-monotonic, defeasible and uncertain argumentation. * Natural argumentation and media: visual arguments, multi-modal arguments, spoken arguments. * Models of argumentation in multi-agent systems inspired by or based upon theories of human argument. * Empirically driven models of argument in AI and Law. * Evaluative arguments and their application in AI systems (such as decision support and advice giving). * Issues of domain specificity, and in particular, the independence of argumentation techniques from the domain of application. * Applications of computer supported collaborative argumentation, in realistic domains in which argument plays a key role, including pedagogy, e-democracy and public debate. * Applications of argumentation based systems, including, for example, the pedagogical, health-related, political, and promotional. * Methods to better convey the structure of complex argument, including representation and summarisation. * Tools for interacting with structures of argument, including visualisation tools and interfaces supporting natural, stylised or formal dialogue. * The building of computational resources such as online corpora related to argumentation.
The workshop encourages submissions in four categories:
* Long papers, either reporting on completed work or offering a polemic discussion on a burning issue (up to 10 pages). * Short papers describing work in progress (up to 5 pages). * Demonstration of implemented systems: submissions should be accompanied by written reports (up to 3 pages). * Short abstract, describing a doctoral thesis summary or a project proposal (up to 2 pages).
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