The new, EPSRC-funded Dialectical Argumentation Machines project is recruiting its first team member, a PhD student. The advertisement is now available.
Vacancy for a PhD student
Posted by chris on May 25, 2009
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New Journal of Argument and Computation
Posted by chris on May 13, 2009
Argument in AI has had a dedicated workshop series in CMNA since 2001; argument in MAS has had its own forum, ArgMAS since 2004. The community as a whole has had the COMMA conference series since 2006. But folk have had to publish in an enormous variety of journals, often through special issues dedicated to argumentation. Finally, a new journal has been established to support the growing community. It is published by Taylor and Francis, who have a strong track record in both humanities and sciences, and have worked with interdisciplinary areas such as ours before. The new journal, Argument & Computation, is now open for business.
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EPSRC announces new initiative in argument technology
Posted by chris on May 1, 2009
EPSRC has announced that it is funding a major new project exploring the deployment of argumentation technologies in online environments. The £0.6m initiative will use the AIF standard as a cornerstone, and will partner with high-impact online providers to deliver live systems based on computational models of philosophical argumentation theory. The Dialectical Argumentation Machines project will look at the monologue-dialogue link and the relationship between abstract and concrete argumentation in order to build systems that can bridge the gap between everyday argument and formal techniques.
The abstract of the project is available from the EPSRC, and the project has a new home page.
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