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Argument & Computation - Volume 1, issue 3

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Open Access
ISSN  1946-2166 (P)
ISSN 1946-2174 (E)

Impact Factor 2023: 1.4

Argument & Computation (A&C) is an open access journal providing a dedicated venue for the dissemination of high quality papers concerning state-of-the-art advancements in the field of computational argumentation.

A&C stands as an interdisciplinary journal by nature, lying at the crossing of the studies on artificial, natural and theoretical argumentation, acknowledging the richness of diversity and promoting integration.

The journal welcomes submissions presenting original scientific results and innovative applications, relevant to this multi-faceted domain and addressing foundational, design, or implementation aspects of computational models and systems thereof, extending the state-of-the-art in research.

Proposals for timely reviews and tutorials and for special issues are encouraged and should be discussed with the Editors-in-Chief.

Topics of interest are exemplified, but not exhausted, by the following list:

  • Formal, semi-formal and informal models for argumentation;
  • Dialogue based on argumentation;
  • Argumentation and computational linguistics;
  • Argument mining;
  • Argumentation and defeasible reasoning;
  • Argumentation and game theory;
  • Argumentation and probability;
  • Argumentation and logic programming;
  • Argumentation and narrative;
  • Analogical argumentation;
  • Reasoning about action and time with argumentation;
  • Decision making based on argumentation;
  • Strategies in argumentation;
  • Argumentation in agents and multi-agent systems;
  • Argumentation for coordination and coalition formation;
  • Argument-based negotiation, dispute resolution and mediation;
  • Argumentation, trust and reputation;
  • Argumentation and human-computer interaction;
  • Argumentation and machine learning;
  • Computational properties of argumentation systems;
  • Implementation of argumentation systems;
  • Tools for supporting and teaching argumentation;
  • Innovative applications based on argumentation;
  • Computational argumentation in specific argument-intensive domains, such as science, business, law, medicine, government, forensics.

All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editors-in-Chief, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to rigorous peer-review by independent, anonymous expert referees. Papers should explain the addressed problem, the relevant state-of-the-art, the innovative idea, the results reported, and the relevance.

Queries regarding submissions can be made by contacting the Editors-in-Chief, whose decision is final.

The structure of argumentation in health product messages

Authors: Walton, Douglas

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: This paper presents an analysis of argumentation in direct-to-consumer health product ads in Newsweek that brings out special features of the arguments used in the ads, including practical reasoning, chained arguments, enthymemes, and prolepsis. A way to help overcome deficiencies in techniques of tailored health communication in consumer health informatics is shown by using argumentation schemes, argument visualisation tools, and dialogue models to frame these persuasive communication messages. The evidence collected is shown to be useful to allow the health informatics communicator and the person to whom message was directed to interact in a dialogue format where arguments can … Show more

Keywords: practical reasoning, argumentation schemes, Araucaria, persuasion dialogue, direct-to-consumer ads, consumer health informatics

DOI: 10.1080/19462166.2010.486481

Citation: Argument & Computation, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 179-198, 2010

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“Your risk is low, because …”: argument-driven online genetic counselling

Authors: Rubinelli, Sara | Schulz, Peter J. | Hartung, Uwe

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Advances in genetic research have created the need to inform consumers. Yet, the communication of hereditary risk and of the options for how to deal with it is a difficult task. Due to the abstract nature of genetics, people tend to overestimate or underestimate their risk. This paper addresses the issue of how to communicate risk information on hereditary breast and ovarian cancer through an online application. The core of the paper illustrates the design of OPERA, a risk assessment instrument that applies the UK National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence's guidelines on the basis of (i) the number … Show more

Keywords: internet-enhanced health communication, risk communication, risk-assessment tools, genetic counselling, hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, Toulmin, New Rhetoric, appeal to reasonableness

DOI: 10.1080/19462166.2010.504884

Citation: Argument & Computation, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 199-214, 2010

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Assessing debate strategies via computational agents

Authors: Yuan, Tangming | Moore, David | Grierson, Alec

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: This paper reports our research concerning dialogue strategies suitable for adoption by a human–computer debating system. We propose a set of strategic heuristics for a computer to adopt to enable it to function as a dialogue participant. In particular, we consider means of assessing the proposed strategy. A system involving two agents in dialogue with each other and a human–agent debate system are constructed and subsequently used to facilitate the evaluations. The evaluations suggest that the proposed strategy can enable the computer to act as an effective dialogue participant. It is anticipated that this work will contribute towards the development … Show more

Keywords: dialogue game, dialogue strategy, computational agents, human–computer debate

DOI: 10.1080/19462166.2010.485698

Citation: Argument & Computation, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 215-248, 2010

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Editorial Board

Article Type: Other

DOI: 10.1080/19462166.2010.513160

Citation: Argument & Computation, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. ebi-ebi, 2010

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