Argüman

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Argüman
Repository github.com/arguman/arguman.org
Written in Python / Django [1]
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Argüman is a free and open source software for collective structured argumentation and argument analysis via argumentation graphs or argument maps in which the type of connections can be specified. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] It allows users to create collaborative "semantic maps" of arguments in well structured tree formats and share them with an audience and potential participants. [7] [3] [8] Arguman.org was an open structured social debate platform that implemented the software. [9] It is down as of 2023. There also is a mobile version of the tool. The project was started, in 2014, and largely built by developers in Turkey. [1]

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Gource visualization video of the development of Argüman.

Some studies used or investigated excerpts of argumentations on the platform. [10] [11] Unlike the larger and functional alternative Kialo, which is structured using only 'Pro' and 'Con' relations, [2] argüman arguments are structured by three types of premises – 'because', 'but', and 'however'. [3] As of the latest version, debates are presented in their entirety as a large tree which may be harder to navigate than other formats – for instance, trees "can become extremely dense, and the interface does not make it obvious which arguments the user should pay attention to". [2] Users can also flag arguments for fallacies. Arguman.org also had a Turkish-language subdomain. [12]

A researcher[ who? ] suggested the concept of the Semantic Web-interoperability could be useful for argumentative structures on the Web, going beyond the conventional flat structures of discussions and lack of characterizations of their components as implemented in argüman. [13] There is research into how to automatically use these collaborative argumentation graphs, which is a "very active" topic in Artificial Intelligence. [4] There also is research into applying conclusion-making methods to the debates or their data, such as bipolar weighted argumentation frameworks – this could be a way to find out what the current conclusion of debates like "Computer Science is not actually a science" is. [14] A study suggests it could be useful for the development of critical thinking skills. [15]

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  5. ↑ Gargouri, Anis; Konieczny, Sébastien; Marquis, Pierre; Vesic, Srdjan (3 May 2021). "On a Notion of Monotonic Support for Bipolar Argumentation Frameworks". Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems. International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: 546–554.
  6. ↑ Jeuris, Steven (2018). "Socratrees: Exploring the Design of Argument Technology for Layman Users". p. 5. arXiv: 1812.04478 [cs.HC].
  7. ↑ Antonio, José; García, Cordón (1 January 2018). Lectura, sociedad y redes: Colaboración, visibilidad y recomendación en el ecosistema del libro (in Spanish). Marcial Pons. p. 129. ISBN   978-84-9123-626-9.
  8. ↑ "Argüman – About". Archived from the original on 2021-01-24.
  9. ↑ Benetos, Kalliopi (2023). "Digital Tools for Written Argumentation". Digital Writing Technologies in Higher Education. Springer International Publishing. pp. 81–99. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-36033-6_6 . ISBN   978-3-031-36032-9.{{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
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