The Argument Web is a large-scale Web of interconnected
arguments created by individuals as they express their opinions and interact with the opinions of others.
[Rahwan, Iyad, Fouad Zablith, and Chris Reed. "Laying the foundations for a world wide argument web." Artificial intelligence 171, no. 10-15 (2007): 897-921.] The Argument Web aims to make online debate intuitive for participants such as
mediators,
students
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,
academics,
broadcasters and
bloggers, to create a Web infrastructure that allows for the storage, automatic retrieval and analysis of
linked argument data, and to improve the quality of online
argument
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and
debate.
[Bex, Floris, John Lawrence, Mark Snaith, and Chris Reed. "Implementing the argument web." Communications of the ACM 56, no. 10 (2013): 66-73.] The Argument Web can be described as a portion of a larger
Semantic Web.
[Rahwan, Iyad. "Mass argumentation and the semantic web." Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web 6, no. 1 (2008): 29-37.]
AIFdb
AIFdb is a database implementation or ‘reification’ of the
Argument Interchange Format
The Argument Interchange Format (AIF) is an international effort to develop a representational mechanism for exchanging argument resources between research groups, tools, and domains using a semantically rich language. AIF traces its history back ...
(AIF), which allows for the storage and retrieval of AIF compliant argument structures. This database solution was provided as a foundation for an open, integrated Argument Web. It offers an extensive range of
web services for interacting with stored argument data, while also offering search and argument visualisation features that are all consistent with the formal ontology of AIF.
At a basic level, the AIFdb web services allow for the insertion and querying of basic components of an
AIF argument, such as nodes, edges and schemes. Building upon this basis, it also facilitates more complex interactions with these AIF argument structures. Such complex queries could make it possible, for example, to determine all the statements made by a particular person in support a given I-Node. While, at its highest level of interaction, AIFdb can handle the import and export of many standard file formats, including
SVG,
DOT,
RDF/XML and other formats of argument theory tools, like Carneades,
Rationale and
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.
Argument blogging
ArguBlogging is software which allows its users to select portions of hypertext on webpages in their
Web browsers and to agree or disagree with the selected content, posting their
arguments to their
blogs
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with
linked argument data.
[Bex, Floris, Mark Snaith, John Lawrence, and Chris Reed. "Argublogging: An application for the argument web." Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web 25 (2014): 9-15.] It is implemented as a
bookmarklet, adding functionality to
Web browsers and interoperating with blogging platforms such as
Blogger and
Tumblr.
See also
*
Argument Interchange Format
The Argument Interchange Format (AIF) is an international effort to develop a representational mechanism for exchanging argument resources between research groups, tools, and domains using a semantically rich language. AIF traces its history back ...
References
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External links
* http://argublogging.com/
Argument technology
Semantic Web