Explanation has been a central feature of AI systems for legal reasoning since their
inception. Recently, the topic of explanation of decisions has taken on a new urgency …

Critical thinking is one of the most important skills deemed necessary for college graduates
to become effective contributors in the global workforce. The first part of this article provides …

Argument mining is the automatic identification and extraction of the structure of inference
and reasoning expressed as arguments presented in natural language. Understanding …

In 1964, Bob Dylan, the US-American musician, author and visual artist who was awarded
the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, composed a famous song:'The times they are a …

In this accessible new textbook, Isabela and Norman Fairclough present their innovative
approach to analysing political discourse. Political Discourse Analysis integrates analysis of …

In this paper, we present a novel approach for identifying argumentative discourse structures
in persuasive essays. The structure of argumentation consists of several components (ie …

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date look at problem solving research and
practice over the last fifteen years. The first chapter describes differences in types of …

In this book two of the leading figures in argumentation theory present a view of
argumentation as a means of resolving differences of opinion by testing the acceptability of …

This book provides a systematic analysis of many common argumentation schemes and a
compendium of 96 schemes. The study of these schemes, or forms of argument that capture …

This article gives a tutorial introduction to the ASPIC+ framework for structured
argumentation. The philosophical and conceptual underpinnings of ASPIC+ are discussed …