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- research-articleMay 2022
Modelling online debates with argumentation theory
ACM SIGWEB Newsletter (SIGWEB), Volume 2022, Issue SpringArticle No.: 4, Pages 1–9https://doi.org/10.1145/3533274.3533278It is important to study and understand Internet debates because they often have consequences in the offline world, for better or worse. We show that argumentation theory, a branch of AI concerned with the resolution of disagreements, provides a ...
- abstractAugust 2022
Who Has the Last Word? Understanding How to Sample Online Discussions
WWW '22: Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2022Page 390https://doi.org/10.1145/3487553.3524188In online debates, as in offline ones, individual utterances or arguments support or attack each other, leading to some subset of arguments (potentially from different sides of the debate) being considered more relevant than others. However, online ...
- research-articleApril 2022
GraphNLI: A Graph-based Natural Language Inference Model for Polarity Prediction in Online Debates
WWW '22: Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022Pages 2729–2737https://doi.org/10.1145/3485447.3512144Online forums that allow participatory engagement between users have been transformative for public discussion of important issues. However, debates on such forums can sometimes escalate into full blown exchanges of hate or misinformation. An important ...
- research-articleJune 2021
Who Has the Last Word? Understanding How to Sample Online Discussions
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), Volume 15, Issue 3Article No.: 12, Pages 1–25https://doi.org/10.1145/3452936In online debates, as in offline ones, individual utterances or arguments support or attack each other, leading to some subset of arguments (potentially from different sides of the debate) being considered more relevant than others. However, online ...
- research-articleMay 2016
Prioritised Default Logic as Rational Argumentation
AAMAS '16: Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent SystemsPages 626–634We endow Brewka's prioritised default logic (PDL) with argumentation semantics using the ASPIC+M framework for structured argumentation. We prove that the conclusions of the justified arguments correspond to the prioritised default extensions in a ...