A Basic Framework for Explanations in Argumentation

AnneMarie Borg; Floris Bex

doi:10.1109/MIS.2021.3053102

A Basic Framework for Explanations in Argumentation

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Abstract

We discuss explanations for formal (abstract and structured) argumentation-the question of whether and why a certain argument or claim can be accepted (or not) under various extension-based semantics. We introduce a flexible framework, which can act as the basis for many different types of explanations. For example, we can have simple or comprehensive explanations in terms of arguments for or against a claim, arguments that (indirectly) defend a claim, the evidence (knowledge base) that supports or is incompatible with a claim, and so on. We show how different types of explanations can be captured in our basic framework, discuss a real-life application and formally compare our framework to existing work.

Original language	English
Article number	9329042
Pages (from-to)	25-35
Number of pages	11
Journal	IEEE Intelligent Systems
Volume	36
Issue number	2
Early online date	20 Jan 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MIS.2021.3053102
Publication status	Published - Mar 2021

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This work was supported by the Dutch Ministry of Justice and the Dutch National Police.

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© 2001-2011 IEEE.

Keywords

Artificial intelligence
knowledge representation formalisms and methods
nonmonotonic reasoning and belief revision

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