http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~delannoy/jfdxml.html
"We discuss a proposal for an annotation system at semantic level and
discourse level, using HTML-style tagging. Discourse is taken in the
multiple sense of textual flow, topical structure, utterance assignment,
and argumentative structure). We suggest ways to build these automatically
or semi-automatically, expanding on principles used in text summarization.
Such a representation could be used to display text in a flexible way,
parametrized by input genre, type of output, or other parametres, to the
effect of enhancing the efficiency of human information-retrieval and
critiquing."
Found by way of JF Delannoy's home page and
http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~delannoy/aaa.html
Automating Argumentation Analysis
"Computational linguistics rarely considers the analysis of argumentation.
Often, it takes discourse as a matter of textual structure or
conversational structure, but not semantic or argumentative structure.
Argumentation should be treated in a broad sense: more like Toulmin
(warrants, evidence) than as Groarke (classical predicate logic, treating
induction as a marginal case). In fact, a lot of everyday argumentation is
based on induction from models left implicit, rather than deduction from
clearly shared models: it is a matter of highlighting a side of the
elephant, as the story goes (rarely more than one at a time, and rarely
balancing or contrasting with counter-hypotheses). It is
hypothetico-deduction on a shoestring.
In fact, much of argumentation in non-scientific academia (social
"sciences") is content to deliver arguments for a model and against
another, but does not care for validation: why is a theory better than
others, how far can it be generalized. Answering in the same terms often
generates diluted (albeit sometimes heated) debate. There may be more
profit in building a principled representation of the claims, and
elaborating on this a clear critique.
The goal of the project is to build:
· a system of representation of arguments
· a method to obtain it
· a method to critique a piece of argumentation."
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