The learners’ ability to write a well-organized argumentative essay has gained prominence within the last decades. The multiple intelligences play a significant role in enhancing the precision of both language and thought during the writing process. The current study aimed at investigating the possible relationship between linguistic and logical intelligences and the frequency of informal falla...

Computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environments may encourage learners to engage in argumentative knowledge construction. Argumentative knowledge construction means that learners work together to elaborate on concepts by constructing arguments and counterarguments. This is achieved through discourse with the goal of acquiring knowledge within a specific domain. However, learners m...

It is well known that description logics cannot tolerate the incomplete or inconsistent data. Recently, inconsistency handling in description logics becomes more and more important. In this paper, we present an argumentative semantics for paraconsistent reasoning in inconsistent ontologies. An argumentative framework based on argument trees is provided to model argumentation in description logi...

This work discusses the possible functions of disconnected excerpts in essays Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio (ENEM) [National High School Exam]. To ground our reflections, we resume concepts genre (BAKHTIN, 2006, 2011), format subversion (MARCUSCHI, 2008), and incoherence (KOCH; TRAVAGLIA, 2008). In analysis, compare effects that use caused three ENEM to two other genres, a petition blog post. ...

Visual rhetoric is more often than not identified with the search for patterns of visual form and content which convey meaning in ways that resemble construed by known rhetorical figures. Despite numerous proposals classification figures verbally or visually, there has been no systematic attempt to account different these may contribute argumentative structure persuasive messages. In this artic...

Harry Frankfurt characterised bullshit as assertions that are made without a concern for truth. Assertions, however, not the only type of speech act can be bullshit. Here, I propose concept argumentative and show how acts account generalised to arguments. Argumentative bullshit, on this account, would production an argument supporting relation between reasons claim.

In this paper, we compose a new task for deep argumentative structure analysis that goes beyond shallow discourse structure analysis. The idea is that argumentative relations can reasonably be represented with a small set of predefined patterns. For example, using value judgment and bipolar causality, we can explain a support relation between two argumentative segments as follows: Segment 1 sta...

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between argumentation structures and (a) argument content, and (b) the holistic quality of an argumentative essay. Our results suggest that structure-based approaches hold promise for automated evaluation of argumentative writing.