From the Contents: List of Figures --; List of Tables --; Contributing Authors --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; 1: A Roadmap of Research in Argument and Computation --; 2: Argument and Multi-Agent Systems --; 3: Decision Support for Practical Reasoning --; 4: Computational Models, Argumentation Theories and Legal Practice --; 5: The Persuasion Machine.-6: Computational Models of Rhetorical Argument --; Bibliography --; Author Index --; Topic Index.
This book represents the first coherent published work in bringing together various branches of artificial intelligence with argumentation and rhetoric, and, as such, aims to play a key role in the establishment of a new field of scholarly research. The volume not only offers in-depth assessments of existing research, but also represents a substantial advance in the state of the art, and lays out a roadmap for future work in this newly emerging cross-disciplinary field. Audience: This book is of interest to academics, researchers, PhD and graduate students in philosophy of argument, logic, informal logic, critical thinking, rhetoric, artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, computational linguistics, natural language processing, law, cognitive science and the interdisciplinary areas between these fields.