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2024 events

Posted by chris on February 20, 2024

2024 sees three events in the community chaired by members of ARG-tech.

In September, Chris is serving as Programme Chair for the 10th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2024) to be held in Hagen, Germany. The call for papers is just out, with a deadline for submissions of 18 April 2024.

Just before that, in August, the 11th International Workshop on Argument Mining will be located with ACL 2024 in Bangkok, and is the venue for the 1st Shared Task on Dialogical Argument Mining (DialAM-2024). DialAM-2024 is led by Ramon, Ella, John and Chris, and the call for participation is also just out. The dataset is released on 17 April 2024.

And finally, with Gabriella Lapesa (Duesseldorf), Valentin Gold (Gottingen) and Annette Hautli-Janisz (Passau), Chris is co-organising the 1st Workshop on Language Driven Deliberation Technology (DELITE 2024) located with LREC-COLING 2024 in Turin in May. The deadline for submissions has just been revised to 2 March 2024.

We look forward to seeing our friends and colleagues at all these events.

ACL2019 tutorial on Advances in Argument Mining

Posted by chris on May 17, 2019

Following our work delivering tutorials at IJCAI2016, ACL2016 and ESSLLI2017, Chris Reed and Katarzyna Budzynska are this year delivering a tutorial at ACL2019 in Florence on Sunday, 28 July.

We will be focusing on argument mining, and given that it is such a fast moving area, the way in which the field has been shaped by advances over the past three years.

The tutorial has its own dedicated website at arg.tech/acl2019tut

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact the tutors — and we hope to see you in Florence in August.

XCI 2017: Explainable Computational Intelligence

Posted by chris on March 30, 2017

Martin Pereira Farina and Chris Reed are organising a workshop on explainable computational intelligence that aims to connect natural language generation, fuzzy systems and previously impenetrable AI systems that are typically seen only as black boxes.

The XCI2017 workshop will be held at INLG 2017 in Santiago de Compostela on 4 September 2017 and the deadline for submissions is 2 June 2017.

Rory Duthie wins Best Paper at COMMA

Posted by chris on September 16, 2016

We are delighted to report that Rory Duthie has been awarded Best Student Paper Prize at the 6th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2016) in Potsdam. Rory has just started the second year of his PhD under the supervision of Katarzyna Budzynska, and was awarded the prize for his paper, Mining Ethos in Political Debate.

ARG-tech at COMMA

Posted by chris on September 12, 2016

The Centre for Argument Technology is delighted to again have a strong showing at the Conference on Computational Models of Argument. This is the 6th edition of the biennial COMMA and is being hosted in Potsdam this week.

Members of the Centre have contributed to a total of four papers at the conference:

Duthie, R., Budynska, K & Reed, C.A. (2016) “Mining Ethos in Political Debate”
Janier, M., Snaith, M., Budzynska, K., Lawrence, J. & Reed, C.A. (2016) “A System for Dispute Mediation: The Mediation Dialogue Game”
Lawrence, J. & Reed, C.A. (2016) “Argment Mining using Argumentation Scheme Structures”
Lawrence, J., Duthie, R. Budzysnka, K. & Reed, C.A. (2016) “Argument Analytics”

In addition we have two further papers in the COMMA workshop on Foundations of the Language of Argumentation:

Koszowy, M. & Budzynska, K. (2016) “Towards a Model for Ethotic Structures in Dialogical Context”
Konat, B., Budzynska, K. & Saint-Dizier, P. (2016) “Rephrase in Argument Structure”

Finally, Kasia Budzynska is also delivering a keynote at the COMMA Summer School on Argumentation:

Budzynska, K. “Arguments and Ethos in Dialogical Context”

We look forward to seeing you there.

ARG-tech at ECA2015

Posted by chris on June 7, 2015

ARG-tech has a strong showing at the first European Conference on Argumentation in Lisbon this week. There are six papers from the group:

Kasia Budzynska, Mathilde Janier, Juyeon Kang, Chris Reed, Patrick Saint-Dizier, Manfred Stede, Olena Yaskorska & Basia Konat – Automatically identifying transitions between locutions in dialogue
Mathilde Janier, Mark Aakhus, Kasia Budzynska & Chris Reed – Modeling argumentative activity with Inference Anchoring Theory: The case of impasse
John Lawrence, Mathilde Janier & Chris Reed – Working with Open Argument Corpora
Dave Murray-Rust, Joseph Corneli, Alison Pease, Ursula Martin & Mark Snaith – Synchronised multi-perspective analysis of online mathematical argument
Mark Snaith & Chris Reed – Dialogue Grammar Induction
Olena Yaskorska & Mathilde Janier – Applying Inference Anchoring Theory for Argumentative Structure Recognition in the Context of Debate

We look forward to seeing you there.

Dispute Mediation Workshop

Posted by Mathilde Janier on January 21, 2015

Dispute Mediation Workshop
9-10 March 2015, Queen Mother Building, School of Computing Dundee.
ARG-tech will be hosting a 2-day workshop on practical applications and uses of technology in mediation practice. The main aim of the workshop is to bring together academics and practicing mediators to identify key challenges and avenues to solutions, in order to build a roadmap for worldwide research and development in this crucial area.

Scottish Argumentation Day 2013

Posted by chris on June 26, 2013

The 2013 Scottish Argumentation Day will be hosted by ARG:dundee on Friday 19th July. The main aim of the day is to allow researchers in argumentation and related fields from across Scotland and further afield to come together and present their work in an informal setting. The day follows on from the successful first meeting held in Aberdeen in 2011. For more details, please contact Mark Snaith.

Congratulations to Dr Snaith

Posted by chris on January 29, 2013

Many congratulations to Mark Snaith who this morning successfully defended his PhD thesis. He was examined by Prof. Guillermo Simari (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina) and Dr. Keith Edwards (Dundee). Mark is staying on in the group as a postdoctoral research assistant.

David Price visiting

Posted by chris on January 18, 2013

We are delighted to be hosting a visit from David Price of debategraph. David will be with the group all day on 18 January, including giving a School seminar in Wolfson on his experiences with debategraph in different application contexts.