Argument and Computation
Studies how people reason and express their reasoning. Applied Computing focuses on how theories of argumentation can be applied in a computational context.
We are a driving force in the emerging interdisciplinary area that lies between argumentation theory and artificial intelligence. We initiated the Symposium on Argument and Computation (2000) bringing the new field to the forefront of computing researchers. Since then, our researchers have coorganized the Computational Models of Natural Argument workshops at the major Artificifical Intelligence international conferences, IJCAI and ECAI, every year since 2001.
Applied Computing's software, Araucaria, is widely used in universities and colleges worldwide, and by judges, lawyers, engineers, and other professionals who use argument in their day-to-day lives. The software has also been used to create AraucariaDB, the world's first online corpus of analysed argument, now being used in several research projects at University of Dundee and throughout the world.
Our publications appear in both argumentation and artificial intelligence journals and are consolidated in a number of recent books and journal special issues edited by our members. We collaborate with colleagues throughout the world in New York, Winnipeg, Toronto, Amsterdam, Utrecht; and nationally in London, Liverpool, and Southampton. Our research is supported by funding from the Engineering Physical Sciences Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, the Carnegie Foundation, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
People working within this theme: Simon Wells, Chris Reed
Research projects related to this theme: Innovation portal small grant scheme, Dialectical Argumentation Machines, IMM-PACT: Intelligent Media Monitoring - Press and Communication Technologies
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