SCHEDULE (location: K.019, King's Building, Strand Campus)

9:15 Welcome

9:30-10:30 Invited talkForm-Function Dyads and Computational Rhetoric. Randy Harris, University of Waterloo, Canada.

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-11:15 - Trevor Bench-Capon Arguing with Dimensions in Legal Cases

11:15-11:45 - Nancy Green Argumentation Mining in Scientific Discourse

11:45-12:15 - Patrick Saint Dizier - A Two-Level Approach to Generate Synthetic Argumentation Reports

12:15-12:30 - Helmut Horacek - Proposing Attachment Points in Arguments Graphs for New Arguments Expressed in Natural Language

12:30-12:45 - Niklas Rach, Wolfgang Minker and Stefan Ultes Towards an Argumentative Dialogue System

12:45 - 14:00 LUNCH 

14:00-14:30 - Thomas Gordon and Horst Friedrich Representing Argumentation Schemes with Constraint Handling Rules (CHR)

14:30-14:45 - Nancy Green Argumentation Schemes for Critical Thinking on Current Events

14:45-15:15 - Al Baker Arguments in Advertising

15:15-15:30 - Simon Wells and John Douglas Monkeypuzzle: Towards Next Generation, Free & Open-Source, Argument Analysis Tools

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

CANCELLED - Rahul Radhakrishnan Iyer, Katia Sycara and Yuezhang Li Detecting type of Persuasion : Is there structure in persuasion tactics?

16:00-16:15 - Oana Cocarascu and Francesca Toni Mining Bipolar Argumentation Frameworks from natural language text

16:15-16:30 - Yunda Desilia, Velizya T. Utami, Cecilia Arta and Derwin Suhartono An attempt to combine features in classifying argument components in persuasive essays

16:30-16:45 -  Sultan Alahmari, Tommy Yuan and Daniel Kudenko Reinforcement Learning for Argumentation: Describing a PhD research

16:45-17:00 Closing remarks.