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We introduce Supported Abstract Argumentation for Case-Based Reasoning (sAA-CBR), a binary classification model in which past cases engage in debates by arguing in favour of their labelling and attacking or supporting those with opposing or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Adam Gould , Gabriel de Olim Gaul , Francesca Toni

Abstract argumentation offers an appealing way of representing and evaluating arguments and counterarguments. This approach can be enhanced by a probability assignment to each argument. There are various interpretations that can be ascribed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-05-15 Anthony Hunter , Matthias Thimm

The aim of this paper is to introduce a new framework for defining abductive reasoning operators based on a notion of retraction in arbitrary logics defined as satisfaction systems. We show how this framework leads to the design of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Marc Aiguier , Jamal Atif , Isabelle Bloch , Ramón Pino-Pérez

In this paper we propose a general approach to define a many-valued preferential interpretation of gradual argumentation semantics. The approach allows for conditional reasoning over arguments and boolean combination of arguments, with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Mario Alviano , Laura Giordano , Daniele Theseider Dupré

Humans and animals have the ability to reason and make predictions about different courses of action at many time scales. In reinforcement learning, option models (Sutton, Precup \& Singh, 1999; Precup, 2000) provide the framework for this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Khimya Khetarpal , Zafarali Ahmed , Gheorghe Comanici , Doina Precup

Among the various forms of reasoning studied in the context of artificial intelligence, qualitative reasoning makes it possible to infer new knowledge in the context of imprecise, incomplete information without numerical values. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Quentin Cohen-Solal , Alexandre Niveau , Maroua Bouzid

Despite the growing prevalence of human-AI decision making, the human-AI team's decision performance often remains suboptimal, partially due to insufficient examination of humans' own reasoning. In this paper, we explore designing AI…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Harry Yizhou Tian , Hasan Amin , Ming Yin

Informal logic is a method of argument analysis which is complementary to that of formal logic, providing for the pragmatic treatment of features of argumentation which cannot be reduced to logical form. The central claim of this paper is…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2019-05-03 Andrew Aberdein

Conceptualization, or viewing entities and situations as instances of abstract concepts in mind and making inferences based on that, is a vital component in human intelligence for commonsense reasoning. Despite recent progress in artificial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Mutian He , Tianqing Fang , Weiqi Wang , Yangqiu Song

Recent work in the behavioural sciences has begun to overturn the long-held belief that human decision making is irrational, suboptimal and subject to biases. This turn to the rational suggests that human decision making may be a better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Haiyang Chen , Hyung Jin Chang , Andrew Howes

The convincingness of an argument does not only depend on its structure (logos), the person who makes the argument (ethos), but also on the emotion that it causes in the recipient (pathos). While the overall intensity and categorical values…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Lynn Greschner , Meike Bauer , Sabine Weber , Roman Klinger

Objective: This paper develops a theoretical framework explaining when and why AI explanations enhance versus impair human decision-making. Background: Transparency is advocated as universally beneficial for human-AI interaction, yet…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ancuta Margondai , Mustapha Mouloua

The human capability to reason about one domain by using knowledge of other domains has been researched for more than 50 years, but models that are formally sound and predict cognitive process are sparse. We propose a formally sound method…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Claudia Schon , Ulrich Furbach , Marco Ragni

Arguments are a fundamental aspect of human reasoning, in which claims are supported, challenged, and weighed against one another. We present an end-to-end large language model (LLM)-based system for reconstructing arguments from natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Paulo Pirozelli , Victor Hugo Nascimento Rocha , Fabio G. Cozman , Douglas Aldred

Describing systems in terms of choices and their resulting costs and rewards offers the promise of freeing algorithm designers and programmers from specifying how those choices should be made; in implementations, the choices can be realized…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Martin Abadi , Gordon Plotkin

Large Language Models (LLMs) often struggle with deductive judgment in syllogistic reasoning, systematically conflating semantic plausibility with formal validity a phenomenon known as content effect. This bias persists even when models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Gabriele Maraia , Marco Valentino , Fabio Massimo Zanzotto , Leonardo Ranaldi

In this paper we show that reversible analysis of logic languages by abstract interpretation can be performed without loss of precision by systematically refining abstract domains. The idea is to include semantic structures into abstract…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 R. Giacobazzi , F. Ranzato , F. Scozzari

Argumentation is a type of discourse where speakers try to persuade their audience about the reasonableness of a claim by presenting supportive arguments. Most work in argument mining has focused on modeling arguments in monologues. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Tuhin Chakrabarty , Christopher Hidey , Smaranda Muresan , Kathy Mckeown , Alyssa Hwang

Recent work on the logical structure of non-locality has constructed scenarios where observations of multi-partite systems cannot be adequately described by compositions of non-signaling subsystems. In this paper we apply these frameworks…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-10 William Zeng , Philipp Zahn

In Dung-style abstract argumentation, various semantics capture notions of acceptability of arguments. The admissibility semantics capture the notion that an argument can be consistently defended from any potential counterargument. Weak…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Uri Andrews , Luca San Mauro , John Spoerl