TY - JOUR
T1 - Debating Technology for Dialogical Argument
T2 - Sensemaking, Engagement and Analytics
AU - Lawrence, John
AU - Snaith, Mark
AU - Konat, Barbara
AU - Budzynska, Katarzyna
AU - Reed, Chris
N1 - We would like to acknowledge that the work reported in this paper has been supported in part by EPSRC in the UK under grant EP/N014871/1, in part by the Innovate UK under grant 101777 and in part by the Leverhulme Trust under grant RPG-2013-076.
PY - 2017/7/14
Y1 - 2017/7/14
N2 - Debating Technologies, a newly emerging strand of research into computational technologies to support human debating, offer a powerful way of providing naturalistic, dialogue-based interaction with complex information spaces. The full potential of debating technologies for dialogical argument can, however, only be realised once key technical and engineering challenges are overcome, viz., data structure, data availability and interoperability between components. Our aim in this paper is to show that The Argument Web, a vision for integrated, reusable, semantically-rich resources connecting views, opinions arguments and debates online, offers a solution to these challenges. Through the use of a running example taken from the domain of Citizen Dialogue, we demonstrate for the first time that different Argument Web components focusing on sensemaking, engagement and analytics can work in concert as a suite of debating technologies for rich, complex, dialogical argument.
AB - Debating Technologies, a newly emerging strand of research into computational technologies to support human debating, offer a powerful way of providing naturalistic, dialogue-based interaction with complex information spaces. The full potential of debating technologies for dialogical argument can, however, only be realised once key technical and engineering challenges are overcome, viz., data structure, data availability and interoperability between components. Our aim in this paper is to show that The Argument Web, a vision for integrated, reusable, semantically-rich resources connecting views, opinions arguments and debates online, offers a solution to these challenges. Through the use of a running example taken from the domain of Citizen Dialogue, we demonstrate for the first time that different Argument Web components focusing on sensemaking, engagement and analytics can work in concert as a suite of debating technologies for rich, complex, dialogical argument.
KW - Debating Technology
KW - Argument
KW - Argumentation
KW - Dialogue
KW - Sensemaking
KW - Engagement
KW - Analytics
U2 - 10.1145/3007210
DO - 10.1145/3007210
M3 - Article
VL - 17
SP - 1
EP - 23
JO - ACM Transactions on Internet Technology
JF - ACM Transactions on Internet Technology
SN - 1533-5399
IS - 3
M1 - 24
ER -
