ARGUMENTATIVE PERSUASIVENESS IN ANCIENT PYRRHONISM

Predicting Persuasiveness in Political Discourses

In political speeches, the audience tends to react or resonate to signals of persuasive communication, including an expected theme, a name or an expression. Automatically predicting the impact of such discourses is a challenging task. In fact nowadays, with the huge amount of textual material that flows on the Web (news, discourses, blogs, etc.), it can be useful to have a measure for testing t...

The Persuasiveness of Ambient Intelligence

Ambient intelligence (AmI) is a novel concept for embedded computing that builds on the large-scale integration of electronic devices into peoples’ surroundings and the ubiquitous availability of digital information to the users of such environments. The concept however is not only concerned with the integration of computing in the background but, as a direct result of the disappearing computer...

Aggregation in the Generationof Argumentative

Cancer in ancient iranian medical books

In medical history of different nations, there are numerous documents concerning cancer. The present study is an investigation in ancient books to determine the part that medicine of Iran has played in the recognition of cancer. In all 31 Iranian medical and 5 Islamic medicine books mostly from 8 to 18 cent. A.D. have been examined. The findings showed that cancer in ancient medical books of Ir...

Ampliative Patterns in Argumentative Reasoning

There are good characterizations of ampliative inference in monotonic theories. However, a problem that faces ampliative inference, in particular abduction, is the explanation of anomalous observations, i. e., observations that are contradictory with the current theory. For this reason, in this work we will consider the problem of embedding abduction of surprising and anomalous observations in ...