Henrique Lopes Cardoso is visiting us this week from the University of Porto Dept of Informatics Engineering to develop our collaboration around argument mining. He today gave us a short introduction to the exciting work at Porto on argument mining and related themes and will be working over the coming ten days with IAT and our infrastructure, and meeting with members of the team.
Kevin Wiesmüller from the Digital Peace Talks Foundation joins our visitor program for the next few weeks to work on automatic processing and visualition of argument & debate.
This week we have two visitors to the Centre. Nuria Franco-Guillen from Griffith University is visiting all week and is giving a seminar on Thursday morning at our regular ARGi session (10am in the ARG lab). She works with John Parkinson at Griffith on a project tracking the national conversation around key political issues and they are interested in using some of our argument mining techniques to process very large data sets.
On Friday we are joined by Alejando Ramos Soto from the University of Santiago de Compostela and currently a visiting researcher at the University of Aberdeen. Following our work delivering analytics for the BBC, Alejandro is here to work on the connection between Natural Language Generation Techniques and debate analytics. He’ll be giving a talk in the ARG lab at 11.30 on Friday.
A stimulating week!
We’re delighted to welcome Prof. Randy Harris from the University of Waterloo who is co-leading one of the foremost groups in computational rhetoric, RhetFIg. Randy will be delivering a talk on Thursday, 23rd March at 10am in the lab (QMB2.15), entitled “Chiastic figures and how they argue”. All welcome as usual.
We are delighted to welcome Prof. Chrysanne Di Marco from the University of Waterloo in Canada who is visiting us for the week. In addition to various meetings to explore links between ARG-tech and the Computational Rhetoric group at Waterloo, Chrysanne will also be giving a talk in the ARG lab this Thursday (1 September) afternoon, 2pm-4pm.
We are delighted to welcome Prakash Poudyal who is visiting us for the week to learn more about techniques for argument mining. Prakash comes to us from the University of Evora in Portugal, where he is an ERASMUS Mundus student.
We are delighted to welcome Maria Boritchev from ENS Lyon who will be visiting the group from the beginning of June until the middle of August. Maria will be working on techniques for argument mining.
We are delighted to be hosting a seminar today from Annette Hautli-Janisz from the University of Konstanz, who will be speaking at 1030 in the ARG-lab on her work with the VisArgue project. As ever, all are welcome.
We’re delighted to host Dr. Marcin Koszowy from the University of Białystok who is visiting this week. Marcin is working with Kasia and Rory on issues related to ethos and authority in argumentation. He will be delivering a masterclass with Kasia on Thursday, 24 Sep 2015 10am-3pm on ethos in argumentation — let us know if you’d like to join.
We are delighted to be hosting a visit from Dr Martín Pereira Fariña from the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. During his visit, Martín will be exploring the connections between fuzzy reasoning and argumentation structures in natural language. He’ll be here from the third week of September until Christmas.
