This survey article proposes a clearer view of Natural Language Reasoning (NLR) in the
field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), both conceptually and practically …

The proliferation of anti-vaccination arguments is a threat to the success of many
immunization programmes. Effective rebuttal of contrarian arguments requires an approach …

Given the centrality of argumentation in the Next Generation Science Standards, there is an
urgent need for an empirically validated learning progression of this core practice and the …

Rather than always inventing examples to illustrate points, we have tried to take them from
real life uses of language. To achieve this, we have used corpora–large collections of …

The emergent few-shot reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have
excited the natural language and machine learning community over recent years. Despite of …

Recent concerns with the evaluation of argumentation in informal logic and speech
communication center around nondemonstrative arguments that lead to tentative or …

Focussing on the phases of qualitative research which precede and follow fieldwork–design,
analysis, and textualization–this book offers new theoretical tools to tackle one of the most …

This book works through some of the theoretical issues that have been accumulating in
informal logic over the past 20 years. At the same time, it defines a core position in the theory …

Coalescent Argumentation is based on the concept that arguments can function from
agreement, rather than disagreement. To prove this idea, Gilbert first discusses how several …

Classical informal reasoning “fallacies,” for example, begging the question or arguing from
ignorance, while ubiquitous in everyday argumentation, have been subject to little …