In order to support the interchange of ideas and data between different projects and applications in the area of computational argumentation, a common ontology for computational argument, the Argument Interchange Format (AIF), has been devised. One of the criticisms levelled at the AIF has been that it does not take into account formal argumentation systems and their associated argumentationthe...

In this paper we introduce a semantic role labeling system constructed on top of the full syntactic analysis of text. The labeling problem is modeled using a rich set of lexical, syntactic, and semantic attributes and learned using one-versus-all AdaBoost classifiers. Our results indicate that even a simple approach that assumes that each semantic argument maps into exactly one syntactic phrase...

We explore a framework for argumentation (based on classical logic) in which an argument is a pair where the rst item in the pair is a minimal consistent set of formulae that proves the second item (which is a formula). We provide some basic deenitions for arguments, and various kinds of counter-arguments (defeaters). This leads us to the deenition of canonical undercuts which we argue are the ...

It has long been assumed that using the deictic motion verb come to describe a motion event involves taking the perspective of an individual located at the destination of the motion event (Fillmore 1966). I argue that this perspective-taking is built into the meaning of come, drawing on novel data concerning what I call the “anchoring implication” of come. This is the implication that a particu...

A peer review system that automatically evaluates student feedback comments was deployed in a university research methods course. The course required students to create an argument diagram to justify a hypothesis, then use this diagram to write a paper introduction. Diagram and paper first drafts were both reviewed by peers. During peer review, the system automatically analyzed the quality of s...

This article presents an argument for the existence of God, showing that the evident phenomena are best explained by supposing that a God causes them. The argument is based on the inductive force of four very evident general phenomena: that there is a physical Universe; that it is governed by very simple natural laws; that those laws are such as to lead to the existence of human bodies; and tha...

the normativity of mental content thesis appears to have been the most influential in contemporary philosophy of mind. paul boghossian (2003, 2005) has developed an argument for the normativity of mental content on the basis of two premises, i.e. firstly, the normativity of the notion of belief and secondly, the priority of the notion of belief to the notion of desire. in his recent article ale...

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We examine the distribution and interpretation of post-copular noun phrases in French when they appear with and without an indefinite article (Marie est (une) physicienne). We propose that the alternation is due to the fact that the indefinite article marks saturation of an NP-internal argument slot, and show that because of this, post-copular indefinite NPs are usually but not always existenti...

We show that Cannon–Thurston maps exist for degenerate free groups without parabolics, that is, for handlebody groups. Combining these techniques with earlier work proving the existence of Cannon–Thurston maps for surface groups, we show that Cannon–Thurston maps exist for arbitrary finitely generated Kleinian groups without parabolics, proving conjectures of Thurston and McMullen. We also show...