Attributed Favourable Relevance and Argument Evaluation

"PageRank" for Argument Relevance

Future search engines are expected to deliver pro and con arguments in response to queries on controversial topics. While argument mining is now in the focus of research, the question of how to retrieve the relevant arguments remains open. This paper proposes a radical model to assess relevance objectively at web scale: the relevance of an argument’s conclusion is decided by what other argument...

Dialectics, Evaluation, and Argument

Vygotskyâ€TMs Crisis: Argument, context, relevance

Vygotsky’s The Historical Significance of the Crisis in Psychology (1926–1927) is an important text in the history and philosophy of psychology that has only become available to scholars in 1982 in Russian, and in 1997 in English. The goal of this paper is to introduce Vygotsky’s conception of psychology to a

Belief Updating and Argument Evaluation

Studies of how evidence affects beliefs sometimes show belief polarization in response to mixed evidence. However, the nature of the mental processes leading to change in opinion is up for debate. Different accounts of how people process evidence and then update their beliefs make different predictions, especially about one-sided evidence, which is rarely examined. We presented subjects with mu...

Parallel Evaluation of LR–Attributed Grammars

In this paper, we present a novel approach to the parallel implementation of one–pass compilers. Based on attribute grammars, it combines the well–known LR parsing technique for the underlying context–free grammar with the parallel evaluation of attribution rules. In order to integrate syntactic and semantic analysis, the LR parsing stack is enriched by additional information, resulting in a so...