6th Workshop on
Computational Models of Natural Argument

Riva del Garda (Italy)
28-29 August 2006

Schedule

Monday 28 August

09:00 - 09:10Welcome and Introduction
09:10 - 10:00 Argumentative Reasoning Patterns, Fabrizio Macagno and Douglas Walton

Promises and Threats in Persuasion, Marco Guerini and Cristiano Castelfranchi

10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 - 12:30 The Carneades Argumentation Framework - Using Presumptions and Exceptions to Model Critical Questions, Thomas F. Gordon and Douglas Walton

Knowing when to bargain: The roles of negotiation and persuasion in dialogue, Simon Wells and Chris Reed

A Utility and Information Based Heuristic for Argumentation, Nir Oren, Timothy J. Norman and Alun Preece

Argument Understanding and Argument Choice - A Case Study, Helmut Horacek

12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30 A formal framework for inter-agents dialogue to reach an agreement about a representation, Maxime Morge, Yann Secq and Jean-Christophe Routier

Towards a Formal Argumentation-based Model for Procedural Texts, Leila Amgoud, Farida Aouladomar and Patrick Saint-Dizier

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00 Argumentation-based Decision Support in Naval Command and Control, Hengameh Irandoust and Abder Rezak Benaskeur

First day wrap up.

Tuesday 29 August

09:00 - 10:00Invited talk: John Fox, Advanced Computation Laboratory, Cancer Research UK (title tba)
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee break
10:30 - 12:30 A critical review of argument visualization tools: do users become better reasoners?, Susan W. van den Braak, Herre van Oostendorp, Henry Prakken, and Gerard A.W. Vreeswijk

Agent-based Argumentation for Ontology Alignments, Loredana Laera, Valentina Tamma, Trevor Bench-Capon, and Jérôme Euzenat

Representing and Querying Arguments in RDF, Iyad Rahwan, and P. V. Sakeer

A knowledge representation architecture for the construction of stories based on interpretation and evidence, Susan W. van den Braak and Gerard A.W. Vreeswijk

12:30 - 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30 Dialectical text planning, Rodger Kibble

Argumentation in Negotiation Dialogues: Analysis of the Estonian Dialogue Corpus, Mare Koit

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 - 17:00Discussion Panel (topic tba)