Automatic generation of arguments is an important task that can be useful for many applications. For instance, the ability to generate coherent arguments during a debate can be useful when determining strengths of supporting evidence. However, with limited technologies that automatically generate arguments, the development of computational models for debates, as well as other areas, is becoming...

1. The Toulmin Model and Assessing Connection Adequ acy Stephen Toulmin has established a connection between legal reasoning and a general theory of argument through his jurisprudential model of "the layout of arguments." In introducing this model in The Uses of Argument, he seeks to reject the Aristotelian (mathematical/geometrical/syllogistic) model of argument structure, which analyses argum...

Toulmin’s argument scheme (1958) represents an influential tool for the analysis of arguments. The scheme enriches the traditional premises-conclusion model of arguments by distinguishing additional elements, like warrant, backing and rebuttal. The present paper contains a formal elaboration of Toulmin’s scheme, and extends it with a treatment of the formal evaluation of Toulmin-style arguments...

2 Proofs for the Poisson model 3 2.1 Bounds for general linear estimators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.2 Negative result for truncated Good-Toulmin estimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.3 Bounds on SGT estimators: arbitrary smoothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.4 Poisson smoothing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

This paper presents an annotation scheme for modelling citation contexts in scientific articles. We present an argumentation framework based on the Toulmin model for scientific articles and develop an annotation scheme with different context types based on the argumentation model. We present the results of the inter-rater reliability study carried out for studying the reliability of our annotat...