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This paper offers an introduction to the 2001 Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Language Argument (CMNLA 2001), a special event of the International Conference on Computational Science. The contributors to the workshop represent, in their backgrounds, the diversity of fields upon which the focus of the event draws. As a result, this paper aims not only to introduce the accepted papers, but also to provide a background that will be accessible to researchers in the various fields, and to sit each work into a coherent context.
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- Argumentation Theory
- Computational Linguistics
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Reed, C., Grasso, F. (2001). Computational Models of Natural Language Argument. In: Alexandrov, V.N., Dongarra, J.J., Juliano, B.A., Renner, R.S., Tan, C.J.K. (eds) Computational Science — ICCS 2001. ICCS 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2073. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45545-0_112
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