3.903 analysis of argument (47)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Fri, 5 Jan 90 20:36:12 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 903. Friday, 5 Jan 1990.


(1) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 90 15:56:37 EST (8 lines)
From: Tom Tomlinson <19910TOM@MSU>
Subject: Re: 3.895 analysis of argument? basic quantative flaw? (69)

(2) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 90 17:16:09 -0500 (EST) (19 lines)
From: Leslie Burkholder <lb0q+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: computer analysis of argument

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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 90 15:56:37 EST
From: Tom Tomlinson <19910TOM@MSU>
Subject: Re: 3.895 analysis of argument? basic quantative flaw? (69)

I suggest reviewing issues of The Computers and Philosophy Newsletter, ed
by Leslie Burkholder, Center for Design of Educational Computing, C
Carnegie-Mellon U, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890. You can E-mail him at
lb0q@andrew.cmu.edu.
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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 90 17:16:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Leslie Burkholder <lb0q+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: computer analysis of argument

Bill Ball asks whether anyone is working on computer analysis of
(natural language) argument (Humanist vol 3 no 985).

Here are some references:
Margot Flowers and Michael Dyer, "Really arguing with your computer in
natural language", AFIPS Conference Proceedings 1984 National Computer
Conference (Reston VA: AFIPS Press).
Robin Cohen, "Analyzing the structure of argumentative discourse",
Computational Linguistics, vol 13 (Jan-Jun 1987).
Wing-Kwong C Wong, "A theory of argument coherence" (AI Lab, University
of Texas at Austin, Jul 1986).
Trudy Govier, "Against the mechanization of reason", Computers &
Philosophy, vol 4 (Dec 1989).

Leslie Burkholder