Focussing on the phases of qualitative research which precede and follow fieldwork–design,
analysis, and textualization–this book offers new theoretical tools to tackle one of the most …

Uncertainty is recognized as a key issue in water resources research, among other
sciences. Discussions of uncertainty typically focus on tools and techniques applied within …

Collaborative argumentation in education, where students work together to construct and
critique arguments, is an important social practice in many disciplines and can also develop …

The detection of hate speech and fake news in political discourse is at the same time a
crucial necessity for democratic societies and a challenge for several areas of study …

This paper explains the importance of classifying argumentation schemes, and outlines how
schemes are being used in current research in artificial intelligence and computational …

" The English word" interpretation" comes from Latin interpretatio, from interpres, originally
meaning an intermediary, broker, or agent, and then also an explainer or translator (De …

Abstract Argumentation schemes can be described as abstract structures representing the
most generic types of argument, constituting the building blocks of the ones used in …

This paper compares current ways of modeling the inferential structure of practical (goal-
based) reasoning arguments, and proposes a new approach in which it is regarded in a …

The successful application of argument mining in the legal domain can dramatically impact
many disciplines related to law. For this purpose, we present Demosthenes, a novel corpus …

This paper proposes an argumentation-based procedure for legal interpretation, by
reinterpreting the traditional canons of textual interpretation in terms of argumentation …