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As we engage in a debate with other parties, it is usual that several subjects might come under discussion. In this work, we propose an extension of classic abstract argumentation frameworks which includes a set of interrelated topics decorating arguments. These topics represent what the arguments are addressing and provide a supporting structure for the analysis of multi-topic argumentation. A notion of “proximity” of an argument to the focus of the debate is introduced, leading to a notion of distance between the topics of the arguments, which is used for proximity-based semantic elaborations.
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This work has been partially supported by EU H2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 690974 for the project MIREL: MIning and REasoning with Legal texts, and by funds provided by CONICET, Universidad Nacional del Sur and Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero, Argentina.
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Budán, M.C.D., Cobo, M.L., Martinez, D.C., Simari, G.R. (2017). An Approach to Characterize Topic-Centered Argumentation. In: An, B., Bazzan, A., Leite, J., Villata, S., van der Torre, L. (eds) PRIMA 2017: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10621. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69131-2_28
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