Debating Technology for Dialogical Argument: Sensemaking, Engagement and Analytics

John Lawrence; Mark Snaith; Barbara Konat; Katarzyna Budzynska; Chris Reed

doi:10.1145/3007210

Debating Technology for Dialogical Argument: Sensemaking, Engagement and Analytics

John Lawrence, Mark Snaith (Lead / Corresponding author), Barbara Konat, Katarzyna Budzynska, Chris Reed

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Article number	24
Pages (from-to)	1-23
Number of pages	23
Journal	ACM Transactions on Internet Technology
Volume	17
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3007210
Publication status	Published - 14 Jul 2017

Keywords

Debating Technology
Argument
Argumentation
Dialogue
Sensemaking
Engagement
Analytics

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Argument Mining
Reed, C. (Investigator)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/01/16 → 31/12/19
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Budzynska, Katarzyna
- Science and Engineering Office - Honorary Senior Lecturer
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