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Flowers, Margot, Rod McGuire and Lawrence Birnbaum. 1982. Adversary arguments and the logic of personal attacks. In Lehnert, Wendy G. and Martin H. Ringle, eds. Strategies for natural language processing. L. Erlbaum. pp. 275–294.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
argumentation | argumentum ad hominem | computer simulation | memory | question | refuting | representational structure | world knowledge

Annotation

A presentation of part of a computational theory of argumentation, including representations for argument structure and rules for using those representations in understanding and in rebutting. The role of memory and world knowledge in the argumentation is touched on through an investigation of the role of questions.