Submissions are solicited to the 16th workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument, to be held in conjunction with IJCAI 2015 in New York, on July 9-11 2016.
KEY DATES
Paper submission (all categories): 22 April 2016
Notification to authors: 20 May 2016
Final version of papers: 17 June 2016
Early registration deadline: tba (monitor IJCAI website)
CMNA 16: tba (during the workshop programme, 9-11 July 2016)
PUBLICATION
CMNA16 proceedings will be published as CEUR Workshop Proceedings http://ceur-ws.org
Extended versions of selected accepted papers will be published as a special issue of the Journal of Argumentation in Context, (John Benjamins publishing) https://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/jaic
TOPICS
The workshop focuses on the issue of modelling "natural" argumentation. Contributions are solicited addressing, but not limited to, the following areas of interest:
* The characteristics of natural arguments: ontological aspects and cognitive issues.
* Personalisation and tailoring of argument to a specific audience
* Models of arguer and models of audience
* The use of models from informal logic and argumentation theory, and in particular, approaches to specific schools of thought developed in informal logic and argumentation.
* Rhetoric and affect: the role of emotions, personalities, etc. in models of argumentation.
* The roles of maneuvering and deceit and the ethical implications of implemented systems demonstrating such features.
* The linguistic characteristics of natural argumentation, including discourse markers, sentence format, referring expressions, and style. Persuasive discourse processing (discourse goals and structure, speaker/hearer models, content selection, etc.). Language dependence and multilingual approaches. Empirical work based on corpora looking at these topics are especially welcomed.
* Non-monotonic, defeasible and uncertain argumentation.
* Natural argumentation and media: visual arguments, multi-modal arguments, spoken arguments.
* Models of argumentation in multi-agent systems inspired by or based upon theories of human argument.
* Empirically driven models of argument in AI and Law.
* Evaluative arguments and their application in AI systems (such as decision support and advice giving).
* Issues of domain specificity, and in particular, the independence of argumentation techniques from the domain of application.
* Applications of computer supported collaborative argumentation, in realistic domains in which argument plays a key role, including pedagogy, e-democracy and public debate.
* Applications of argumentation based systems, including, for example, the pedagogical, health-related, political, and promotional.
* Methods to better convey the structure of complex argument, including representation and summarisation.
* Tools for interacting with structures of argument, including visualisation tools and interfaces supporting natural, stylised or formal dialogue.
* The building of computational resources such as online corpora related to argumentation.
The workshop encourages submissions in four categories:
* Long papers, either reporting on completed work or offering a polemic discussion on a burning issue (up to 10 pages).
* Short papers describing work in progress (up to 5 pages).
* Demonstration of implemented systems: submissions should be accompanied by written reports (up to 3 pages).
* Short abstract, describing a doctoral thesis summary or a project proposal (up to 2 pages).
Paper submission will be handled by the Easychair conference system. Please submit your paper here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmna16