Some Options for Instantiation of Bipolar Argument Graphs with Deductive Arguments

TL;DR

This paper proposes a framework for instantiating bipolar argument graphs with logical arguments, incorporating internal structure and relationship types to better understand argumentative interactions.

Contribution

It introduces a novel framework that uses logical arguments to instantiate bipolar argument graphs, considering internal argument structure and relationship constraints.

Findings

Framework effectively models internal argument structure

Constraints improve the accuracy of argument interaction representation

Enhances understanding of argumentative dynamics

Abstract

Argument graphs provide an abstract representation of an argumentative situation. A bipolar argument graph is a directed graph where each node denotes an argument, and each arc denotes the influence of one argument on another. Here we assume that the influence is supporting, attacking, or ambiguous. In a bipolar argument graph, each argument is atomic and so it has no internal structure. Yet to better understand the nature of the individual arguments, and how they interact, it is important to consider their internal structure. To address this need, this paper presents a framework based on the use of logical arguments to instantiate bipolar argument graphs, and a set of possible constraints on instantiating arguments that take into account the internal structure of the arguments, and the types of relationship between arguments.