[agents] [CfP] Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA) workshop @ AISB 2018

[Floris Bex]

** CMNA 2018, the 18th workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument
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one day during 4th-6th April 2018, University of Liverpool, UK


DEADLINE 10 January 2018

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CMNA 2018 will be held as part of the 2018 AISB Convention, the longest
running convention on Artificial Intelligence, organised by the Society for
the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, which is
held in Liverpool, UK from 4th to 6th April 2018.

The series of workshops on Computational Models of Natural Argument is
continuing to attract high quality submissions from researchers around the
world since its inception in 2001.The workshop focuses on "natural"
argumentation.

The main theme of the AISB Convention is “AI for the Digital Society”, and
papers addressing this theme will be especially welcome. Topics are as
follows.

* The characteristics of “natural” arguments (e.g. ontological aspects,
cognitive issues, legal aspects).
* The linguistic characteristics of natural argumentation, including
discourse markers, sentence format, referring expressions, and style.
* The generation of natural argument
* Corpus argumentation results and techniques
* Argumentation mining
* Models of natural legal argument
* Rhetoric and affect: the role of emotions, personalities, etc. in
argumentation.
* The roles of licentiousness and deceit and the ethical implications of
implemented systems demonstrating such features.
* Natural argumentation in multi-agent systems.
* Methods to better convey the structure of complex argument, including
representation and summarisation.
* Natural argumentation and media: visual arguments, multi-modal arguments,
spoken arguments.
* Evaluative arguments and their application in AI systems (such as
decision-support and advice-giving).
* The computational use of models from informal logic and argumentation
theory.
* Computer supported collaborative argumentation, for pedagogy, e-democracy
and public debate.
* Tools for interacting with structures of argument.
* Applications of argumentation based systems.

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We are accepting submissions of long and short papers, demonstrations and
short abstracts. CMNA18 proceedings will be published as AISB Convention
Proceedings.
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Key dates are as follows:

* Paper submission (all categories): 10 January 2018
* Notification to authors: 5th February 2018
* Final version of papers: 5th March 2018
* Early registration deadline and other information: see the AISB2018
website at http://aisb2018.csc.liv.ac.uk/
* CMNA 18: one day during 4-6 April 2018

Please visit http://cmna.info//CMNA18/ for more information.

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Floris Bex - Utrecht University
Floriana Grasso - University of Liverpool
Nancy Green - University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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