Argumentation mining aims at automatically extracting structured arguments from
unstructured textual documents. It has recently become a hot topic also due to its potential in …

Argumentation and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) are closely related, as in the
recent years, Argumentation has been used for providing Explainability to AI. Argumentation …

Chatbots are conversational software applications designed to interact dialectically with
users for a plethora of different purposes. Surprisingly, these colloquial agents have only …

The document-centric workflows in science have reached (or already exceeded) the limits of
adequacy. This is emphasized by recent discussions on the increasing proliferation of …

Social media is flooded with rumors, which make fake news detection a pressing problem.
Many black-box approaches have been proposed to automatically predict the veracity of …

Argumentation mining is an application of natural language processing (NLP) that emerged
a few years ago and has recently enjoyed considerable popularity, as demonstrated by a …

Existing literature on distributed development in software engineering, and other fields
discusses various challenges, including cultural barriers, expertise transfer difficulties, and …

The paper studies semantics that evaluate arguments in argumentation graphs, where each
argument has a basic strength, and may be attacked by other arguments. It starts by defining …

We show that an interesting class of feed-forward neural networks can be understood as
quantitative argumentation frameworks. This connection creates a bridge between research …

The study of properties of gradual evaluation methods in argumentation has received
increasing attention in recent years, with studies devoted to various classes of …