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September 14
08:45 09:05 Welcome and opening
09:05 10:05 Invited talk
Chair: Paul Dunne
Jens Allwood:
Argumentation, Activity and Culture
10:05 10:55 Argument mining
Chair: Stefan Woltran
  • Rory Duthie, Katarzyna Budzynska and Chris Reed:
    Mining Ethos in Political Debate (F)
  • Tom Bosc, Elena Cabrio and Serena Villata: Tweeties Squabbling:
    Positive and Negative Results in Applying Argument Mining on Social Media (F)
10:55 11:25 Break
11:25 13:00 Abstract argumentation I
Chair: Leon van der Torre
  • Alexander Bochman:
    Abstract Dialectical Argumentation Among Close Relatives (F)
  • Kristijonas Čyras, Ken Satoh and Francesca Toni:
    Explanation for Case-Based Reasoning via Abstract Argumentation (F)
  • Isabel Sassoon, Jeroen Keppens and Peter Mcburney:
    Preferences in argumentation for statistical model selection (S)
  • Christof Spanring:
    Perfection in Abstract Argumentation (S)
  • Sylvie Doutre and Jean-Guy Mailly:
    Quantifying the Difference between Argumentation Semantics (S)
13:00 14:30 Lunch
14:30 16:05 Quantitative approaches
Chair: Stefano Bistarelli
  • Elise Bonzon, Jérôme Delobelle, Sébastien Konieczny and Nicolas Maudet:
    Argumentation Ranking Semantics based on Propagation (F)
  • Jiachao Wu, Hengfei Li, Nir Oren and Timothy Norman:
    Gödel Fuzzy Argumentation Frameworks (F)
  • Shuya Bundo and Kazunori Yamaguchi:
    Minimal Cost Semantics in Argumentation Framework on Semiring Cost Assignment (S)
  • Dov Gabbay and Odinaldo Rodrigues:
    Degrees of “in”, “out” and “undecided” in Argumentation Networks (S)
  • John Lawrence, Rory Duthie, Katarzyna Budzynska and Chris Reed:
    Argument Analytics (S)
16:05 16:30 Break
16:30 18:30 Demo session
  • Abdallah Arioua, Madalina Croitoru and Patrice Buche:
    DALEK: a Tool for Dialectical Explanations in Inconsistent Knowledge Bases
  • Stefano Bistarelli, Fabio Rossi and Francesco Santini:
    ConArg: A Tool for Classical and Weighted Argumentation
  • Tom Bosc, Elena Cabrio and Serena Villata:
    Tweeties Squabbling: Positive and Negative Results in Applying Argument Mining on Social Media
  • Federico Cerutti, Mauro Vallati and Massimiliano Giacomin:
    Efficient and Off-The-Shelf Solver: jArgSemSAT
  • Federico Cerutti, Massimiliano Giacomin and Mauro Vallati:
    Generating Structured Argumentation Frameworks: AFBenchGen2
  • Oana Cocarascu and Francesca Toni:
    A system for supporting the detection of deceptive reviews using argument mining
  • Stefan Ellmauthaler and Hannes Strass:
    DIAMOND 3.0 - A Native C++ Implementation of DIAMOND
  • Thomas Gordon and Douglas Walton:
    Carneades 4.2, with support for Balancing Arguments and Multi-criteria Decision Analysis
  • Georg Heissenberger and Stefan Woltran:
    GrappaVis - A System for Advanced Graph-Based Argumentation
  • Mathilde Janier, Mark Snaith, Katarzyna Budzynska, John Lawrence and Chris Reed:
    A System for Dispute Mediation: The Mediation Dialogue Game
  • John Lawrence, Rory Duthie, Katarzyna Budzynska and Chris Reed:
    Argument Analytics
  • Claudia Schulz and Dragos Dumitrache:
    The ARGTEACH Web-Platform
  • Nikolaos I. Spanoudakis, Antonis C. Kakas, and Pavlos Moraitis:
    Gorgias-B: Argumentation in Practice
  • Marc van Zee, Diana Marosin, Floris Bex and Sepideh Ghanavati:
    The RationalGRL Toolset for Goal Models and Argument Diagrams
18:30 Welcome reception
September 15
09:00 10:00 Invited talk
Chair: Katarzyna Budzynska
Sien Moens:
Argumentation Mining: How Can a Machine Acquire World and Common Sense Knowledge?
10:00 11:05 Algorithms and solvers:
Chair: Nir Oren
  • Federico Cerutti, Mauro Vallati and Massimiliano Giacomin:
    Where Are We Now? State of the Art and Future Trends of Solvers for Hard Argumentation Problems (F)
  • Bernhard Bliem, Markus Hecher and Stefan Woltran:
    On Efficiently Enumerating Semi-stable Extensions via Dynamic Programming on Tree Decompositions (F)
  • Federico Cerutti, Mauro Vallati and Massimiliano Giacomin:
    On the Effectiveness of Automated Configuration in Abstract Argumentation Reasoning (S)
11:05 11:30 Break
11:30 13:00 Argumentation in multi-agent scenarios
Chair: Antonis Kakas
  • Katie Atkinson and Trevor Bench-Capon:
    Argument Schemes for Reasoning About the Actions of Others (F)
  • Martin Caminada and Richard Booth:
    A Dialectical Approach for Argument-Based Judgment Aggregation (F)
  • Paul Dunne:
    I heard you the first time: debate in cacophonous surroundings (F)
  • Tom Blount, David Millard and Mark Weal:
    An Ontology for Argumentation on the Social Web: Rhetorical Extensions to the AIF (S)
13:00 14:30 Lunch
14:30 15:55 Argumentation and dialogue
Chair: Elise Bonzon
  • Seyed Ali Hosseini, Sanjay Modgil and Odinaldo Rodrigues:
    Assigning Likelihoods to Interlocutors’ Beliefs and Arguments (F)
  • Josh Murphy, Elizabeth Black and Michael Luck:
    A heuristic strategy for persuasion dialogues (S)
  • Mathilde Janier, Mark Snaith, Katarzyna Budzynska, John Lawrence and Chris Reed:
    A System for Dispute Mediation: The Mediation Dialogue Game (S)
  • Tobias Krauthoff, Michael Baurmann, Gregor Betz and Martin Mauve:
    Dialog-Based Online Argumentation (S)
  • Mariela Morveli-Espinoza, Ayslan Possebom and Cesar A. Tacla:
    Construction and strength calculation of threats (S)
15:55 16:25 Break
16:25 18:05 Structured argumentation
Chair: Alexander Bochman
  • Phan Minh Dung:
    A Canonical Semantics for Structured Argumentation with Priorities (F)
  • Thomas Gordon and Douglas Walton:
    Formalizing Balancing Arguments (F)
  • Ho-Pun Lam, Guido Governatori and Régis Riveret:
    On ASPIC+ and Defeasible Logic (F)
  • Henry Prakken:
    Rethinking the Rationality Postulates for Argumentation-Based Inference (F)
20:00 Conference dinner at Schmiede 9
September 16
09:00 10:00 Invited talk
Chair: Sylvie Doutre
Anthony Hunter:
Computational Persuasion with Applications in Behaviour Change
10:00 11:05 Argument mining and learning
Chair: Serena Villata
  • John Lawrence and Chris Reed:
    Argument Mining using Argumentation Scheme Structures (F)
  • Oana Cocarascu and Francesca Toni:
    Argumentation for Machine Learning: A Survey (F)
  • Pavithra Rajendran, Danushka Bollegala and Simon Parsons:
    Assessing weight of opinion by aggregating coalitions of arguments (S)
11:05 11:35 Break
11:35 12:55 Connections with other formalisms
Chair: Chris Reed
  • Floris Bex and Silja Renooij:
    From Arguments to Constraints on a Bayesian Network (F)
  • James Butterworth and Paul Dunne:
    Spectral Techniques in Argumentation Framework Analysis (F)
  • Bruno Yun and Madalina Croitoru:
    An argumentation workflow for reasoning in Ontology Based Data Access (S)
  • Dov Gabbay and Michael Gabbay:
    Argumentation as information input: a position paper (S)
12:55 14:30 Lunch
14:30 15:50 Bipolar argumentation
Chair: Sebastien Konieczny
  • Carlo Proietti:
    Understanding Group Polarization with Bipolar Argumentation Frameworks (F)
  • Andrea Cohen, Sebastian Gottifredi, Alejandro J. García and Guillermo R. Simari:
    On the Acceptability Semantics of Argumentation Frameworks with Recursive Attack and Support (F)
  • Claudette Cayrol, Andrea Cohen and Marie-Christine Lagasquie-Schiex:
    Towards a new framework for recursive interactions in abstract bipolar argumentation (S)
  • Maximiliano C. D. Budán, Gerardo I. Simari and Guillermo R. Simari:
    Using Argument Features to Improve the Argumentation Process (S)
15:50 16:20 Break
16:20 17:35 Abstract argumentation II
Chair: Sarah Gaggl
  • Ringo Baumann, Thomas Linsbichler and Stefan Woltran:
    Verifiability of Argumentation Semantics (F)
  • Paul Dunne:
    Forbidden Sets in Argumentation Semantics (F)
  • Martin Moguillansky and Guillermo Simari:
    A Specialized Set Theoretic Semantics for Acceptability Dynamics of Arguments (F)
17:35 Closing session