An Approach to Characterize Topic-Centered Argumentation

MAXIMILIANO C. BUDÁN; MARIA LAURA COBO; DIEGO CÉSAR MARTÍNEZ; GUILLERMO R. SIMARI

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Conferencia; The 20th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems; 2017

As we engage in a debate with other parties, it is usual that several subjects might come under discussion. In this work, we propose an extension of classic abstract argumentation frameworks which includes a set of interrelated topics decorating arguments. These topics represent what the arguments are addressing and provide a supporting structure for the analysis of multi-topic argumentation. A notion of ?proximity? of an argument to the focus of the debate is introduced, leading to a notion of distance between the topics of the arguments, which is used for proximity-based semantic elaborations.