CMNA 2018 - 18th Worskhop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA18)

The series of workshops on Computational Models of Natural Argument is continuing to attract high quality submissions from researchers around the world since its inception in 2001. Like the past editions, CMNA XVIII acts to nurture and provide succor to the ever growing community working on Argument and Computation, a field developed in recent years overlapping Argumentation Theory and Artificial Intelligence. The workshop focuses on the issue of modelling "natural" argumentation. Contributions are solicited addressing, but not limited to, the following areas of interest:
The characteristics of “natural” arguments (e.g. ontological aspects, cognitive issues, legal aspects).
The linguistic characteristics of natural argumentation, including discourse markers, sentence format, referring expressions, and style.
The generation of natural argument
Corpus argumentation results and techniques
Argumentation mining
Models of natural legal argument
Rhetoric and affect: the role of emotions, personalities, etc. in argumentation.
The roles of licentiousness and deceit and the ethical implications of implemented systems demonstrating such features.
Natural argumentation in multi-agent systems.
Methods to better convey the structure of complex argument, including representation and summarisation.
Natural argumentation and media: visual arguments, multi-modal arguments, spoken arguments.
Evaluative arguments and their application in AI systems (such as decision-support and advice-giving).
Non-monotonic, defeasible and uncertain argumentation.
The computational use of models from informal logic and argumentation theory.
Computer supported collaborative argumentation, for pedagogy, e-democracy and public debate.
Tools for interacting with structures of argument.
Applications of argumentation based systems.