Chatbots are conversational software applications designed to interact dialectically with
users for a plethora of different purposes. Surprisingly, these colloquial agents have only …

In this accessible new textbook, Isabela and Norman Fairclough present their innovative
approach to analysing political discourse. Political Discourse Analysis integrates analysis of …

Over the last ten years, argumentation has come to be increasingly central as a core study
within Artificial Intelligence (AI). The articles forming this volume reflect a variety of important …

The theory of argumentation is a rich, interdisciplinary area of research straddling the fields
of artificial intelligence, philosophy, communication studies, linguistics and psychology. In …

Since the time of the ancient Greek philosophers and rhetoricians, argumentation theorists
have searched for the requirements that make an argument correct, by some appropriate …

What makes teamwork tick? Cooperation matters, in daily life and in complex applications.
After all, many tasks need more than a single agent to be effectively performed. Therefore …

The rise of the Internet and the growth of distributed computing have led to a major paradigm
shift in software engineering and computer science. Until recently, the notion of computation …

This article reviews recent advances in the interdisciplinary area lying between artificial
intelligence and the theory of argumentation. The article has two distinct foci: first, examining …

The notion of burden of proof and its companion notion of presumption are central to
argumentation studies. This book argues that we can learn a lot from how the courts have …

In this paper, we closely examine the various ways in which a multi-party argumentative
discussion—argumentative polylogue—can be analyzed in a dialectical framework. Our …