Visit and Seminar by Professor Anthony Hunter (UCL)

Thanks to the support of the laboratory, the MARIANNE team within SPARKS will be hosting Professor Anthony Hunter from June 10 to July 4 in Building E of Polytech.  

 

Professor Hunter is a faculty member at University College London (UCL). His main research interests include knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR), argumentation, inconsistency handling, persuasion, and more recently, natural language processing (NLP).

 

We are pleased to invite you to his seminar, which will take place on Monday, June 16, from 2:00 to 3:00 PM, in room Euler Bleu at Inria.

 

Title : Handling Enthymemes in Computational Argumentation

 

Abstract : Normally, arguments exchanged by human agents are enthymemes, which means that some premises and/or claims are implicit. So, when an enthymeme is presented, the presenter expects that the intended recipient can identify the missing premises. This is because the presenter assumes that the presenter and recipient have shared knowledge (knowledge in common, and commonsense knowledge). Human agents constantly need to understand enthymemes, whether in everyday or professional life, and so we need to replicate this process in computational models of argument. To better understand, and automatically analyze, the enthymemes, it would be desirable to decode them as logical arguments. This could offer tools for better understanding arguments identified by argument mining from text, or arguments exchanged during discussions or debates. In this talk, we will review the state of the art on computational approaches to handling enthymemes, and we will consider some future directions for research.

 

More information about Professor Hunter below

 https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=xOT7oygAAAAJ&hl=en