Consider a discourse situation where the speaker tries to convince the hearer of a particular point of view. The first task for the hearer is to understand what it is the speaker wants him to believe -to analyze the structure of the argument being presented, before judging credibility and eventually responding. This paper describes a model for the analysis of arguments that includes: • a theory of expected coherent structure which is used to limit analysis to the reconstruction of particular transmission forms; • a theory of linguistic clues which assigns a functional interpretation to special words and phrases used by the speaker to indicate the structure of the argument; • a theory of evidence relationships which includes the demand for pragmatic analysis to accommodate beliefs not currently held. The implications of this particular design for dialogue analysis in general are thus: • structure is an important feature to extract in a representation to control the processing; • linguistic constructions can be assigned useful interpretations; • pragmatic analysis is crucial in cases where the participants differ in beliefs.
Similarly, REF presented a computational model of argument analysis where the structure of each argument is restricted to the claim and evidence relation.
Analyzing The Structure Of Argumentative Discourse
Computational Linguistics
Computer Science