Speech Acts in a Dialogue Game Formalisation of Critical Discussion

Visser, Jacky

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“…Four stores are instantiated to keep track of the propoanalysis of argumentative texts [49] and the profiles of dialogue as employed by Walton [55,20] and Krabbe [22]. 10 Visser [51] presents a more elaborate interpretation of the pragma-dialectical ideal model as a dialogue game, and provides more justification of the adequacy of the resulting formalisation. 11 We will only discuss a few excerpts of the code here; the full DGDLspecification of the Critical Discussion Game is available online at arg.tech/cdg.…”

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A Critical Discussion Game for Prohibiting Fallacies

Visser

Budzyńska

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2017

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Abstract. The study of fallacies is at the heart of argumentation studies. In response to Hamblin's devastating critique of the state of the theory of fallacies in 1970, both formal dialectical and informal approaches to fallacies developed. In the current paper, we focus on an influential informal approach to fallacies, part of the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation. Central to the pragma-dialectical method for analysing and evaluating argumentative discourse is the ideal model of a critical discussion. In this discussion model, a dialectical perspective on argumentation is combined with a pragmatic take on communicative interaction. By formalising and computationally implementing the model of a critical discussion, we take a first step in the development of software to computationally model argumentative dialogue in which fallacies are prohibited along the pragmadialectical norms. We do this by defining the Critical Discussion Game, a formal dialogue game based on the pragma-dialectical discussion model, executable on an online user-interface which is part of a larger infrastructure of argumentation software.

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A Critical Discussion Game for Prohibiting Fallacies

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2017

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Speech Acts in a Dialogue Game Formalisation of Critical Discussion

Visser

2016

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In this paper a dialogue game for critical discussion is developed. The dialogue game is a formalisation of the ideal discussion model that is central to the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation. The formalisation is intended as a preparatory step to facilitate the development of computational tools to support the pragma-dialectical study of argumentation. An important dimension of the pragmadialectical discussion model is the role played by speech acts. The central issue addressed in this paper is how the speech act perspective can be accommodated in the formalisation as a dialogue game. The starting point is an existing 'basic' dialogue game for critical discussion, in which speech acts are not addressed. The speech act perspective is introduced into the dialogue game by changing the rules that govern the moves that can be made and the commitments that these result in, while the rules for the beginning, for the end, and for the structure of the dialogue game remain unchanged. The revision of the move rules is based on the distribution of speech acts in the pragma-dialectical discussion model. The revision of the commitment rules is based on the felicity conditions that are associated with those speech acts.

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Managing the Complexity of Dialogues in Context: A Data-Driven Discovery Method for Dialectical Reply Structures

Yaskorska-Shah

2021

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Current formal dialectical models postulate normative rules that enable discussants to conduct dialogical interactions without committing fallacies. Though the rules for conducting a dialogue are supposed to apply to interactions between actual arguers, they are without exception theoretically motivated. This creates a gap between model and reality, because dialogue participants typically leave important content-related elements implicit. Therefore, analysts cannot readily relate normative rules to actual debates in ways that will be empirically confirmable. This paper details a new, data-driven method for describing discussants’ actual reply structures, wherein corpus studies serve to acknowledge the complexity of natural argumentation (itself understood as a function of context). Rather than refer exclusively to propositional content as an indicator of arguing pro/contra a given claim, the proposed approach to dialogue structure tracks the sequence of dialogical moves itself. This arguably improves the applicability of theoretical dialectical models to empirical data, and thus advances the study of dialogue systems.

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Speech Acts in a Dialogue Game Formalisation of Critical Discussion

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A Critical Discussion Game for Prohibiting Fallacies

A Critical Discussion Game for Prohibiting Fallacies

Speech Acts in a Dialogue Game Formalisation of Critical Discussion

Managing the Complexity of Dialogues in Context: A Data-Driven Discovery Method for Dialectical Reply Structures

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