Argument diagramming in logic, law and artificial intelligence

  • Authors:
  • CHRIS REED;DOUGLAS WALTON;FABRIZIO MACAGNO

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Applied Computing, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, UK/ e-mail: chris@computing.dundee.ac.uk;Department of Philosophy, University of Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9, Canada/ e-mail: d.walton@uwinnipeg.ca;Department of Linguistics, Universitá/ Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Largo A. Gemelli, 1-20123 Milano, Italy/ e-mail: fabriziomacagno@hotmail.com

  • Venue:
  • The Knowledge Engineering Review
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a survey of the development of the technique of argument diagramming covering not only the fields in which it originated — informal logic, argumentation theory, evidence law and legal reasoning — but also more recent work in applying and developing it in computer science and artificial intelligence (AI). Beginning with a simple example of an everyday argument, we present an analysis of it visualized as an argument diagram constructed using a software tool. In the context of a brief history of the development of diagramming, it is then shown how argument diagrams have been used to analyse and work with argumentation in law, philosophy and AI.