We are delighted to welcome Marcelo Acuña to the group for the next few months. Marcelo is a student at Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile, where he works with the Centre for Studies of Argumentation and Reasoning, CEAR, and where he has built up experience of using the Argunaut argument analysis tool.
Marcelo will be working with us to build bridges between ARG:dundee and CEAR and to explore cognitive aspects of argumentation in an Argument Web setting.
A first glimpse of how AIF is supporting interchange on the Argument Web
Prototype development on infrastructure and basic tools has reached the point where we can get a first glimpse of how the Argument Web will support a wide range of argument-related practice online. The video shows how different argument analysis tools can interact with each other, and how tools for analysis can work in harmony with tools for argument authoring and debate.
All the software is currently available, and going through some final testing before release. Later on in January, we will open access to the AIF database, and the first set of import/export filters. Then in February, we will release a public beta of the first practical Argument Web tool: FireBack, a Firefox plugin for argublogging. Tools for debate, analysis and automated computation will then follow later in the Spring.
(Download the video here).
We’ve just heard that a consortium including Indiana University, the University of East London and ARG:dundee are one of eleven successful teams in the Digging into Data Challenge call, funded by JISC, ESRC and AHRC in the UK, NEH in the US, SSHRC in Canada and NWO in the Netherlands. We will be investigating how big datasets from sources such Google Books can support navigation through debate. More information will follow.
