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ArgQL: A Declarative Language for Querying Argumentative Dialogues

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We introduce ArgQL, a declarative query language, which performs on a data model designed according to the principles of argumentation. Its syntax is based on Cypher (language for graph databases) and SPARQL 1.1 and is adjusted for querying dialogues, composed by sets of arguments and their interrelations. We use formal semantics to show how queries in ArgQL match against data in the argumentation model. The execution is realized by translating both data and queries into standard models for storage and querying.

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This work is funded by the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FO.R.T.H.). We also thank Dr. Theodore Patkos for the insightful discussions about the topic.

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  1. Foundation for Research and Technology, Heraklion, Greece

    Dimitra Zografistou, Giorgos Flouris & Dimitris Plexousakis

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  1. University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy

    Stefania Costantini

  2. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

    Enrico Franconi

  3. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

    William Van Woensel

  4. Birkbeck, University of London, London, United Kingdom

    Roman Kontchakov

  5. Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

    Fariba Sadri

  6. SINTEF/University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Dumitru Roman

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Zografistou, D., Flouris, G., Plexousakis, D. (2017). ArgQL: A Declarative Language for Querying Argumentative Dialogues. In: Costantini, S., Franconi, E., Van Woensel, W., Kontchakov, R., Sadri, F., Roman, D. (eds) Rules and Reasoning. RuleML+RR 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10364. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61252-2_16

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