In this paper we apply the information state update (ISU) machinery to tracking and understanding the argumentative behaviour of participants in a parliamentary debate in order to predict its outcome. We propose to use the ISU approach to model the arguments of the debaters and the support/attack links between them as part of the formal representations of a participant’s information state. We f...

In this paper the ASPIC framework for argumentation-based inference is used for formally reconstructing two legal debates about law-making proposals: an opinion of a legal scholar on a Dutch legislative proposal and a US commonlaw judicial decision on whether an existing common law rule should be followed or distinguished. Both debates are formalised as practical reasoning, with versions of the...

The use of classroom debates can be helpful in teaching ethical content that is often nebulous and difficult for students to comprehend and apply. Debates enhance critical thinking skills through researching issues and developing a stance that can be supported in scientific literature. The authors describe a student debate project involving ethical issues with chronically ill clients. Many stud...

4 Bohr-Sommerfeld curves and Poincaré series 27 4.1 Bohr-Sommerfeld curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 4.2 Relative Poincaré series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 4.3 Hypercycles and geodesics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 4.4 Horocycles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

A q-analogue of the multiple gamma functions is introduced , and is shown to satisfy the generalized Bohr-Morellup theorem. Furthermore we give some expressions of these function. 1 2 MICHITOMO NISHIZAWA

With this demonstration we introduce AFAlpha, a prototype of an Argument Mining tool, working in unison with Quaestio-it, an online social debating platform. While AFAlpha extracts arguments from text, as well as attack and support relations between arguments, Quaestio-it is concerned with visualising and evaluating interactive debates. We thus use Quaestio-it to represent and visualise output ...

The Notre Dame/Saint M ary’s Nuclear Freeze Coalition organized its campaign fo r a unilateral freeze referendum last night amid discus­ sion and dissension. Kevin Walsh, president o f C ILA , interrupted the organizational meeting with a plea that the Nuclear Freeze Coalition postpone voting on their issue until March 2 instead o f Feb. 8, when it had been previously scheduled. Walsh was conce...

In an election year, political messaging can become feisty or even violent. In the 2012 U.S. presidential election, Americans were inundated with statements that metaphorically referred to violence, such as “Romney slams Obama” and”Romney slaughtered Obama.” Such expressions grab our attention and resonate with our understanding of actual physical violence. Despite their frequent use in electio...

This is the first of a series of articles based on presentations at the American Diabetes Association Scientific Sessions held 5–9 June 2009 in New Orleans, Louisiana. A series of elegant investigations some 4 decades ago led to the realization that elevated levels of certain hemoglobin components are found in individuals with diabetes (1). The useful measurement of A1C became standard in asses...