CMNA 55th Workshop onComputational Models of Natural Argument 30 July 2005, Edinburgh |
Submissions are invited to the 5th International Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument, to be held as part of the IJCAI 2005 workshop programme.
20 February 2005
Deadline long papers
20 March 2005
Deadline short papers and demos
20 April 2005
Notification
20 May 2005
Deadline camera ready versions
30 July 2005
CMNA5 at IJCAI, Edinburgh
AI has witnessed a growth in uses of research in the philosophical theory of argumentation, in informal logic, and in dialectics throughout many of its subdisciplines. Recent successes include agent system negotiation protocols that demonstrate higher levels of sophistication and robustness; argumentation-based models of evidential relations and legal processes that are more expressive; models of language generation that use rhetorical structures to produce effective arguments; groupwork tools that use argument to structure interaction and debate; computer-based learning tools that exploit monological and dialogical argument structures in designing pedagogic environments; decision support systems that build upon argumentation theoretic models of deliberation to better integrate with human reasoning; and models of knowledge engineering structured around core concepts of argument to simplify knowledge elicitation and representation problems. Similarly, argumentation theory has benefitted from applied AI work on new tools for teaching and research in argumentation and critical thinking, and from AI problems and issues that have offered a proving ground and evaluation framework for theories of argumentation. The CMNA series is acting to support this community.
Areas of Interest
The workshop focuses on the issue of modelling "natural" argumentation. The need for more "naturalness" has been raised in several occasions, and several interpretations have been given to the attribute. Especially when the human is involved in the loop, arguments which are, for instance, expressed in natural language are definitely more appropriate. But the use of human languages is not the only way to make the reasoning process closer to its addressees. Some researchers have, for instance, acknowledged that the development of the argument itself can take advantages of human reasoning abilities and, among other things, the ability to infer implicit steps of the argument. Naturalness may involve the use of means which are more immediate than language to illustrate a point, such as graphics or multimedia. Naturalness can also relate to the preference for one particular style of reasoning as opposed to another to structure complex arguments. Or to the use of more sophisticated rhetorical devices, interacting at various layers of abstraction. Or the exploitation of "extra-rational" characteristics of the audience, taking into account emotions and affective factors. In particular, contributions will be solicited addressing, but not limited to, the following areas of interest:
Submission instructions
The workshop encourages submissions in three categories:
Extended versions of selected papers accepted to CMNA 1, CMNA 2 and CMNA 3 are to appear in a special issue of the International Journal of Intelligent Systems. Similar avenues will be explored for CMNA 4 and CMNA 5.
Chris Reed (Chair)
Department of Applied Computing
University of Dundee
Dundee DD1 4HN, UK
chris@computing.dundee.ac.uk
http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/staff/creed/
Floriana Grasso
Department of Computer Science
University of Liverpool
Liverpool L69 3BF, UK
floriana@csc.liv.ac.uk
http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~floriana/
Rodger Kibble
Department of Computing
Goldsmiths College, University of London
New Cross, London, SE14 6NW, UK
R.Kibble@gold.ac.uk
http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/~mas01rk/