Congratulations to Dr. Bex

Posted by chris on October 29, 2009

Floris today successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled Evidence for a Good Story: A Hybrid Theory of Arguments, Stories and Criminal Evidence in Groningen, the Netherlands. His thesis work was supervised by Henry Prakken, Bart Verheij and Peter van Koppen.

Abstract: The thesis develops a theory of reasoning with the evidence and facts in the context of criminal cases. In the literature two approaches to such reasoning have been proposed: argumentation and storytelling. It is discussed how stories and arguments can be combined in one hybrid theory, which is presented both in a formal logic as well as informally. Furthermore, criteria that a good story or argument should meet are given and a formal-logical dialogue game, which aims to concretise these criteria, is presented.
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Citation: F.J. Bex, Evidence for a Good Story: A Hybrid Theory of Arguments, Stories and Criminal Evidence. (2009) Doctoral Dissertation, University of Groningen.

John Lawrence joins ARG

Posted by chris on October 5, 2009

John Lawrence joins us today from his previous job at EDS. John will be working on the Dialectical Argumentaiton Machines project, initially looking at developing the link between dialogue and monologue in implemented argumentation support systems.

John maintains his homepage at www.johnlawrence.net

Floris Bex joins ARG

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Floris Bex joins us today having recently completed his PhD at the University of Groningen under the supervision of Henry Prakken, Bart Verheij and Peter van Koppen on the Making Sense of Evidence project. Floris will be working on the Dialectical Argumentation Machines project, initially exploring the links between structured and abstract argumentation and the link to visualization.

Floris maintains his homepage at www.florisbex.com

Katarzyna Budzyńska joins ARG

Posted by chris on October 2, 2009

We are delighted to welcome Katarzyna Budzyńska to ARG for a year from today. Katarzyna is Assistant Professor of Logic at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, where she is coordinating the development of a Polish research community in argumentation. She also contributes to the PERSEUS project, which is focusing on developing links between computational models of argument and rhetorical and psychological models of persuasion. It is this work that she will be developing whilst resident at ARG:dundee.

Katarzyna maintains her homepage at http://argumentacja.pdg.pl/budzynska.

Mark Snaith takes up PhD studentship

Posted by chris on October 1, 2009

Mark, who was previously a programmer in ARG, today takes up a PhD studentship on the Dialectical Argumentation Machines project.

Mark maintains his homepage at www.marksnaith.co.uk

Dialectical Argumentation Machines project starts

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The EPSRC funded, three-year, £570k project Dialectical Argumentation Machines officially starts today. Although an official launch will not happen until early in the New Year, we are off to a flying start with three new appointments. The project will be investigating the links between dialogue and monologue and between linguistically-oriented structured arguments and mathematically-oriented abstract arguments.

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