Profiles of Dialogue for Relevance

This paper uses argument diagrams, argumentation schemes, and some tools from formal argumentation systems developed in artificial intelligence to build a graph-theoretic model of relevance shown to be applicable (with some extensions) as a practical method for helping a third party judge issues of...

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Main Authors: Douglas Walton, Fabrizio Macagno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Windsor 2016-12-01
Series:Informal Logic
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Online Access:https://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/4586
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Summary:This paper uses argument diagrams, argumentation schemes, and some tools from formal argumentation systems developed in artificial intelligence to build a graph-theoretic model of relevance shown to be applicable (with some extensions) as a practical method for helping a third party judge issues of relevance or irrelevance of an argument in real examples. Examples used to illustrate how the method works are drawn from disputes about relevance in natural language discourse, including a criminal trial and a parliamentary debate.
ISSN:0824-2577
0824-2577