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.
We are delighted to be hosting Patrick Saint-Dizier this week to push forward our collaboration on argument mining in dialogical contexts. Amongst other commitments, Patrick is giving a masterclass on the TextCoop system on Wednesday from 10am to 3pm.
Rory Duthie is this week starting a PhD in the group funded by an EPSRC Doctoral Training Account award. He will be supervised by Katarzyna Budzynska and working on argument mining with a particular focus on ethos.
Welcome Rory!
We are pleased to welcome Joonsuk Park, a graduate student from Cornell, who is visiting ARG-tech from mid June until the end of August. He will be working on various aspects of argument mining whilst he’s here.
ARG-tech has a strong showing at the first European Conference on Argumentation in Lisbon this week. There are six papers from the group:
We look forward to seeing you there.
The ARG-tech tool for Online Visualisation of Argument, OVA, is released today. For the past eighteen months, OVA has been in use in beta form by research groups and educators around the world, with their feedback and suggestions helping to improve the software.
OVA provides a simple and intuitive interface for analysing argumentation, and is a native Argument Web tool which means that it can interact with the wide variety of other applications and systems which use AIF, including Araucaria, Argublogging, argugrader and others.
OVA runs in a browser and can be used to analyse text files or web pages. It provides argumentation schemes for capturing stereotypical patterns of reasoning, and also conflict schemes for capturing patterns of rebutting and undercutting attack. Analyses can be saved locally or directly to the Argument Web where they can be navigated using the AIFdb search interface, corpus management and other tools. It also supports online collaborative working, allowing remote teams to work together on argument analysis in real time.
OVA can be found online at http://ova.arg-tech.org (or, if you would rather play with a test deployment that does not add its data to the live Argument Web servers, you can try http://test.ova.arg-tech.org)
This is the first public release of OVA, and as usual we are keen to get comments and feedback.
A short video introducing OVA is also available.
Dispute Mediation Workshop
9-10 March 2015, Queen Mother Building, School of Computing Dundee.
ARG-tech will be hosting a 2-day workshop on practical applications and uses of technology in mediation practice. The main aim of the workshop is to bring together academics and practicing mediators to identify key challenges and avenues to solutions, in order to build a roadmap for worldwide research and development in this crucial area.
Olena Yaskorska is visiting ARG-tech from the beginning of February until the end of June 2015. Olena is currently a PhD student at the Polish National Academy of Sciences under the supervision of Katarzyna Budzynska, though she comes to ARG-tech almost directly from our colleagues at USI Lugano, where she has been based for the past year.
Olena is working on models of argument in dialogue and particularly on their automatic recognition.
We are delighted that Barbara (Basia) Konat today joins ARG-tech, employed on the TSB-funded Argument Analytics project.
She will be working closely with the PI, Katarzyna Budzynska and the company partner, J & L Technology Ltd.
We are excited to announce that applications are invited for two positions in Dundee: a postdoctoral research assistant for the TSB- & EPSRC-funded project “Argument Analytics” (starting from Nov 2014); and for a PhD student for the EPSRC DTG-funded project “Recognizing Trust in Natural Language” (starting in 2015).
