CMNA 5

5th Workshop on
Computational Models of Natural Argument

30 July 2005, Edinburgh

Schedule and accepted papers

9:00 - 9:15	Welcome and Introduction
9:15 - 9:45	"Integrating Scholarly Argumentation, Texts and Community: Towards an Ontology and Services" , Neil Benn, Simon Buckingham Shum, and John Domingue
9:45 - 10:00	"Development and Evaluation of a System for Educational Debate", Tangming Yuan, David Moore, and Alec Grierson
10:00 - 10:15	"A Computational Model of Argumentative Design Rationale", Yoshikiyo Kato and Koichi Hori
10:15 - 10:30	"Toward ethical persuasive agents", Marco Guerini and Oliviero Stock
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30	"Towards Computational Models of Natural Argument using Labelled Deductive Systems", Carlos Chesnevar and Guillermo Simari
11:30 - 11:45	"A unified setting for inference and decision: An argumentation-based approach", Leila Amgoud
11:45 - 12:15	"Persuasive Political Argument", Katie Atkinson, Trevor Bench-Capon, and Peter McBurney
12:15 - 12:30	"Testing Computational Dialectic", Simon Wells, and Chris Reed
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 15:00	Invited talk: Parallel Dynamic Argument Structures, Professor Theodore Scaltsas, Department of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh.
15:00 - 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 - 15:45	"Collaborative and Argumentative Models of Meeting Discussions", Vincenzo Pallotta, John Niekrasz, and Matthew Purver
15:45 - 16:00	"An Exploration of the Diversity of Natural Argumentation in Instructional Texts", Farida Aouladomar, and Patrick Saint-Dizier
16:00 - 16:30	"Design of Information Graphics for Causal Arguments", Nancy Green
16:30 - 16:45	"Argumentation in Institutional Dialogues: Corpus Analysis", Mare Koit
16:45 - 17:00	"Human-Adaptive Determination of Natural Language Hints", Dimitra Tsovaltzi, and Armin Fiedler
17:00 - 17:50	Panel (topic tba)
17:50 - 18:00	Wrap up