Category Archives: Staff

Online Visualisation of Argument

Posted by admin on July 4, 2009

This is Mark Snaith presenting his senior honours project entitled “Online Visualisation of Argument” at the annual School of Computing degree show at the University of Dundee [ Download: xvid avi format (47.6 MB) ]. The main aim of this project was to provide a simple way to visualise arguments online using a flash widget to graphically render Argument Interchange Format (AIF) resources. Mark is spending the summer working with ARG:dundee to further develop the OVA software suite.

Argument Blogging

Posted by simon on

Here is a short film [ Download: xvid avi format (26.2MB) ] of Colin Gourlay talking about his honours project at the School of Computing 09 degree show. Colin has been working in the ARG group on the argument blogging project which captures argumentative dialogues that occur online and records them using the Argument Interchange Format. Simon will be presenting a paper describing some of the work on this project during CMNA 9 at IJCAI in July.

Vacancy for a PhD student

Posted by chris on May 25, 2009

The new, EPSRC-funded Dialectical Argumentation Machines project is recruiting its first team member, a PhD student. The advertisement is now available.

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.

Congratulations to Dr. Wells

Posted by chris on February 13, 2007

Many congratulations to Simon Wells who this morning successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. He was examined by Prof. Trevor Bench Capon (Liverpool) and Dr. Keith Edwards (Dundee). Simon is staying on in the group as a postdoctoral fellow.

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