AI³ 2021

Welcome to the website of the 5th Workshop on Advances in Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence (AI³ 2021), an event associated with the 20th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2021).

Latest News and Announcements

• 16/02/22 - Proceeding of the workshop are now online on CEUR! Check them out at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3086/.

• 25/11/21 - The abstract of our invited talk by Sanjay Modgil, titled Truth, Logic and Dialogue, is now available on the dedicated workshop page.

• The workshop will be held ONLINE on November 29, 2021, 9am-6pm

• The conference program is now out! Check out the Program page. If you prefer, you can also download the program as a PDF file from Google Drive.

• 4/08/21 - We have just announced our Program Committee

• 15/07/21 - We are delighted to announce that Sanjay Modgil (King's College London) has been confirmed as an invited speaker. The title of his talk will be announced soon.

Aims and scope

Argumentation is the study of the processes and activities involving the production and exchange of arguments, where arguments are attempts to persuade someone or something by giving reasons for accepting a particular conclusion as evident. As such, argumentation provides procedures for making and explaining decisions and is able to capture diverse kinds of reasoning and dialogue activities in a formal but still intuitive way, enabling the integration of different specific techniques and the development of trustable applications.

For these reasons, over the last two decades formal argumentation has become a main research topic in AI. A variety of theoretical models at different levels of abstraction have been extensively studied, ranging from purely abstract models to concrete implemented systems, argumentation solvers have been developed to identify the justification status for arguments according to different semantics, and a variety of applications of argumentation have been proposed for several fields, ranging from modeling dialogues in social networks to law and medicine.

Given that the study of argumentation is inherently interdisciplinary, the goal of the workshop, co-located with the International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2021), is to stimulate discussions and promote scientific collaboration among researchers not only directly involved in argumentation, but also from research fields indirectly related to argumentation. In this respect, at least two directions can be envisaged:

• Cross-fertilization with different fields (including non-monotonic reasoning, logic programming, linguistics, natural language processing, philosophy and psychology, just to mention a few of them) is needed to update and extend foundations in Argumentation Theory, as well as tackling a number of open issues that are currently debated in the area.

• Inter-disciplinary collaborations are necessary to foster the adoption of argumentation as a viable AI paradigm with a wide range of applications.

In Italy, several research groups from different universities and institutions have been involved in argumentation in recent years. One of the aims of the workshop is also to bring together researchers working in argumentation to foster collaboration and the development of a specific national research community.