The OWL is an “idea cruncher” designed to assist in constructing, analyzing, and comparing
debates and arguments. The design philosophy of OWL and the pragmatics of representing …

Argumentation plays an important role in all aspects of daily life. People use argumentation
in political debates, in legal disputes, and in business decision making. In general …

Visualization tools and argument schemes, such as those described by Thomas Gordon and
Douglas Walton,'have been developed by a community of scholars interested in …

Abstract Argumentation schemes are forms of argument that model stereotypical patterns of
reasoning. This paper is part of a project on the formalization of argumentation schemes …

Drawing from the study of human reasoning, Argumentation describes different types of
arguments and explains how they influence beliefs and behaviour. Raymond Nickerson …

Argumentation, which can be abstractly defined as the interaction of different arguments for
and against some conclusion, is an important skill to learn for everyday life, law, science …

Structured analytic techniques have been established as a powerful weapon in the arsenal
of Intelligence Analysis that helps mitigating confirmation bias-arguably one of the most well …

What we usually think of as higher order skills in argumentation can be profitably viewed as
systematic structures for organizing and representing information. Standard terms like “line …

Even though tools for identifying and analyzing arguments are now in wide use in the field of
argumentation studies, so far there is a paucity of resources for evaluating real arguments …

Focuses on the aim to develop software tools to assist users in constructing and evaluating
arguments and counterarguments and/or to develop automated systems for constructing and …