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New Paper in Studies in Logic, Grammar & Rhetoric
My latest paper, titled “Thou Shalt Not Squander Life - contrasting five theoretical approaches to argument strength”, has just been published in volume 69 of Studies in Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric.
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New Paper at CMNA'23
My latest paper, titled “On The Role of Dialogue Models in the Age of Large Language Models”, will be presented at the upcoming 23rd Annual International Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA'23).
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23rd International Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument
The 23rd annual international workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA'23) will run on Friday 1st December. This year we are running online, unaffiliated with a wider host conference.
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New Paper at CMNA'22
My latest paper, titled “Reconsidering RepStat Rules in Dialectical Games”, will be presented at the upcoming 22nd Annual International Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA'22). The paper is joint work with Mark Snaith from RGU in which we investigate rules governing repetition of statements within dialectical games in the context of conversational AI.
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22nd International Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument
The 22nd annual international workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA'22) will run on 12th September in Cardiff. This year, in line with the peripatetic tradition of CMNA, we will be hosted by the 9th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2022).
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Gairloch Public Outreach Event
On the 4th of August we headed to the Gairloch Museum to do a public outreach event to mark the launch of our website for the WOSHH/SCOSHH projects. The West of Scotland Herring Hunt (WOSHH) is a William Grant Foundation funded project that focusses upon Herring spawning behaviour on the West coast of Scotland.
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New Paper in Informal Logic
My latest paper, co-written with my colleague David Godden of Michigan State University, is entitled “Burdens of Proposing ” and is collected into a special issue celebrating the work of Douglas Walton and his Contributions to Argumentation Theory.
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Co-Investigator on the West of Scotland Herring Hunt project
The William Grant Foundation has funded our “West of Scotland Herring Hunt (WoSHH)” project to the tune of £154,550.45. I am a co-investigator on this project which will investigate both historical and contemporary Herring spawning on the West coast of Scotland with the goal of informing policy decisions leading to their future sustainability.
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New Paper at CMNA'21
My latest paper, titled “Towards a Declarative Approach to Constructing Dialogue Games”, will be presented at the upcoming 21st International Workshop in Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA'21). The paper is joint work with Mark Snaith from RGU in which we sketch out a new programme of research into how dialogue games, expressed using a new sub-unit of the DGDL called “fragments”, can be re-used in new contexts.
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New Paper in Computer Graphics Forum
My latest paper, titled “Design and Evaluation of Visualization Techniques to Facilitate Argument Exploration”, with my recently graduated Ph.D student, Dr Dana Khartabil, and colleagues from Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh University, and Ontario Tech University, has just been published in the Computer Graphics Forum.
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