The Argument Interchange Format, AIF, is an international effort to develop a representational mechanism for exchanging argument resources between research groups, tools, and domains using a semantically rich language.<\/p>\n
The AIF is a description<\/em> written largely in natural language. That description is then available as a number of different specifications<\/em> in different languages (such as OWL-DL, RDF-S and SQL). Those specifications are in turn available for download as specific implementations<\/em>.<\/p>\n The Spring 2012 version of the AIF is available as<\/p>\n History & Related Work ARG:dundee has been contributing to the Argument Interchange Format since its inception. In 2005, a group of researchers met at an AgentLink colloquium in Budapest. The documents from that meeting were collected together online at x-opennet.org, a site that is sadly now defunct. The result of the work in Budapest was published as a draft description in 2006<\/a>. Since then, a number of groups have published further work on the AIF (feel free to drop links to examples in the comments to this post), with ARG’s contributions to the debate focusing on an OWL-DL reification for the World Wide Argument Web published in Artificial Intelligence<\/em><\/a> in collaboration with Iyad Rahwan<\/a> and Fouad Zablith<\/a>, and a preliminary characterisation of dialogue in the AIF published in COMMA-2008<\/a>. Other work of which we are aware (as at June 2009) includes:<\/p>\n The first stable version of the AIF1 implementation was released as the following set:<\/p>\n The relationships between these files and their current status is described in a Technical Report<\/a> and a summary diagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n Earlier than that, we said that: though AIF is still something of a moving target, it is settling down. Machine-readable versions of AIF are available<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Argument Interchange Format, AIF, is an international effort to develop a representational mechanism for exchanging argument resources between research groups, tools, and domains using a semantically rich language. The AIF is a description written largely in natural language. That description is then available as a number of different specifications in different languages (such as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":96,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-197","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2520,"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/197\/revisions\/2520"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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![summary<\/a> and full documentation) missing links to be finished by end Mar 2012<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nHistory & Related Work<\/strong><\/p>\nARG:dundee has been contributing to the Argument Interchange Format since its inception. In 2005, a group of researchers met at an AgentLink colloquium in Budapest. The documents from that meeting were collected together online at x-opennet.org, a site that is sadly now defunct. The result of the work in Budapest was published as a draft description in 2006<\/a>. Since then, a number of groups have published further work on the AIF (feel free to drop links to examples in the comments to this post), with ARG’s contributions to the debate focusing on an OWL-DL reification for the World Wide Argument Web published in Artificial Intelligence<\/em><\/a> in collaboration with Iyad Rahwan<\/a> and Fouad Zablith<\/a>, and a preliminary characterisation of dialogue in the AIF published in COMMA-2008<\/a>. Other work of which we are aware (as at June 2009) includes:<\/p>\n\nSanjay Modgil<\/a> and Jarred McGinnis working on using the LCC for dialogue in AIF, with a paper at ArgMAS-2007<\/a><\/li>\nIoan Alfred Letia<\/a> and Adrian Groza<\/a> working on extending AIF for mapping, with a paper at ArgMAS-2008<\/a><\/li>\nStella Heras at Univesidad Politecnica de Valencia<\/a> working on AIF and dialogue, with a paper at ArgMAS-2009<\/a><\/li>\nA paper summarising recent work on AIF can be found in the book<\/a> co-edited by Iyad Rahwan<\/a> and Guillermo Simari<\/a>.<\/li>\nthis lists needs updating<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nOlder Versions<\/strong><\/p>\nThe first stable version of the AIF1 implementation was released as the following set:<\/p>\n\nThe Core AIF in RDF and OWL<\/a><\/li>\nA variant of the above in OWL-DL<\/a><\/li>\nAn SQL database definition aif1db-sql<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThe relationships between these files and their current status is described in a Technical Report<\/a> and a summary diagram<\/a>.<\/p>\nEarlier than that, we said that: though AIF is still something of a moving target, it is settling down. Machine-readable versions of AIF are available<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\nin RDF (as used in ArgDF<\/a>) ArgOnt.rdf ArgOnt.rdfs<\/li>\nin OWL-DL (as used in Avicenna and Araucaria<\/a> v4) araucaria4.owl<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Argument Interchange Format, AIF, is an international effort to develop a representational mechanism for exchanging argument resources between research groups, tools, and domains using a semantically rich language. The AIF is a description written largely in natural language. That description is then available as a number of different specifications in different languages (such as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":96,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-197","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2520,"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/197\/revisions\/2520"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/www.arg.tech\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/aif2db2.png\"){kind=link}