Argumentation-Based Reasoning with Preferences

Abstract

Abstract. One of the main objectives of AI is modelling human reasoning. Since preference information is an indispensable component of common-sense reasoning, the two should be studied in tandem. Argumentation is an established branch of AI dedicated to this task. In this paper, we study how argumentation with preferences models human intuition behind a particular decision making scenario concerning reasoning with rules and preferences. To this end, we present an example of a common-sense reasoning problem complemented with a survey of decisions made by human respondents. The survey reveals an answer that contrasts with solutions offered by various argumentation formalisms. We argue that our results call for advancements of approaches to argumentation with preferences as well as for examination of the type of problems of reasoning with preferences put forward in this paper. Our work contributes to the line of research on preference handling in argumentation, and it also enriches the discussions on the increasingly important topic of preference treatment in AI at large.

Argumentation and explainable artificial intelligence: a survey

“…Fusing commonsense knowledge into Argumentation with strict definitions will empower the Explainability capability of an AF because it will allow it to reason with methods closer to human thinking and therefore being more persuasive in a dialogue. The studies that attempt to fuse commonsense knowledge into Argumentation Theory consider commonsense knowledge as: commonly accepted knowledge on which they use preferences (Čyras 2016), text analytics (Moens 2016; Zhang et al . 2017), Event Calculus (Almpani & Stefaneas 2017), and even knowledge from external Web Knowledge Graphs (Kobbe et al .…”

Preliminary Notions of Arguments from Commonsense Knowledge

“…This way, it becomes possible to both to take advantage of the progress in sub-fields of Computational Argumentation, as well as to identify new areas that require research, particularly suitable for the needs of commonsense reasoning. Other studies approach commonsense reasoning with AF using preference rules [3], Event Calculus [1], and Web resources [7], without explicitly distinguishing commonsense from other types of knowledge.…”

Abstract Argumentation Framework with Conditional Preferences

“…Several works generalizing Dung's framework to handle preferences over arguments have been proposed Cayrol 1998, 2002;Vesic 2011, 2014;Cyras 2016;Silva, Sá, and Alcântara 2020). Definition 1.…”